As anyone who’s watched Kirby Ferguson’s Everything is a Remix series knows, creativity is all about appropriation and renewal. And in Chad Wys’ series of images Nocturne, classic portraits are reformed into fragmented images where disembodied faces look out from the frames, drips of color falling from their gazes. What looks like spray-painted splodges dot the images, obscuring the subjects’ bodies and disfiguring their faces into melting mugs that look like they’ve been doused in acid or some such corrosive substance.On his website, Wys says that deconstruction is a major part of his thought process and that art reflecting on itself is a reoccurring theme in his work. This series of digital works reinvents and distorts these realist portraits, hacking them with unfamiliar colors and forms so they become almost humorous, with the discarnate eyes strangely peering out at you. And also, as with anything where the human form is remixed, a little disconcerting.
[via Today and Tomorrow]
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