Anti-Shrts

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Series of portraits | 2011 | T-shirts, thread, pins, framed | various sizes

The Anti-Shrts portrait series was created from designs on old or found T-shirts. The faces of various musicians, cartoon characters and animals were given new and (where possible) contrasting facial expressions by means of pinning, sewing, folding and applying collage techniques to the shirts. These textile portraits were then stretched over wooden frames, so that the character on the T-shirt is only partly recognisable in its iconographic representation. This series is a continuation of a sequence of works that engage with faces as indicators of emotional states and with the physiognomy of inanimate objects.
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