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| | --- Reply above this line to comment on this post --- Though it feels like that ex took a little piece of your heart, to use the immortal words of Janis Joplin, it turns out that’s nothing compared to what he or she could have picked up around your apartment. Artist Michael Mapes personalizes his portraiture as perhaps no other artist in history has by combining pictures with DNA samples. He begins a portrait by taking a few hundred photographs of a person in their environment, which Mapes says grants him a more complex understanding of their identity. Working closely with the subject, he collects pieces of debris they leave in their wake: eyelashes, perfume, handwriting samples, dirt from their garden, hair from their pets, and anything else that might turn up. He recreates a photographic portrait using what he finds, working in other details like vacation photos or the eye color of the subject’s spouse. “I also try to vary how it’s presented in the work,” says Mapes, “glass vials, test tubes, petri dishes, resin cubes, and thousands of insect pins.” Isn’t it nice to know your descendents won’t have to settle for a picture on the wall when they could just clone you? Full story at Fast Co Design. A totally different take on body art. | | | |
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