The Fragmented Portrait (2018-2020)

I often spend my time observing the relationship between myself and others around me. There is a physical and mental distance we share which effects the way we perceive others and how we interact. This distance plays a key role in defining our relationship to what is around us and how we navigate. The thing about distance however, is that it skews our perspective when it goes unchallenged.

Inspired by aerial landscapes, The Fragmented Portrait, approaches portraiture from a birds-eye perspective that distorts the distance between the work and its audience. Exploring themes of faceless portraiture and aerial perspectives, each image invites the viewer to place themselves in these surreal moments that live in this void. When a character's face no longer becomes the focus of a portrait, what can they become? A person's face carries a version of who they think they should be in front of the camera. The Fragmented Portrait seeks to take that control away.