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My goal within this series was not to represent specific faces within this series, although I am interested in evoking recognition. The organization of features may call to mind a specific likeness for the viewer. As the features dissolve and emerge, the faces are both familiar and strange, comforting and disturbing. How far can the face be abstracted and still remain legible as a face?

I animate the graphite pigment as it floats upon the stone paper. The push and pull of my brush conjures features that appear and disappear. I play with the tension between mark making and illusion it creates.