Artists Anonymous

I just added a new page to my site. It was a project inspired from my recent trip to vietnam, where everyone wore pollution masks and the government was censoring artists for doing anything related to politics, the naked body, or anything that might be deemed taboo or indelicate.  I am drawn, as you may know, to text, and language. And very interested in personal stories and psychology, the ways in which people choose to communicate or not communicate with others and the reasons behind these self-cesnoring choices in communication and social interactions.  This is a project dealing with self-censorship by asking artists to write down a secret, anonymously, which is then placed in a box until I have all of the secrets, and separated from each person's name and personal identity. I then used the pollution masks to make portraits that narrow in on each artists' eyes (the windows to the soul...)  This is just the beginning of my work here, I think.

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