Re-construction

I had fun seeing how various artists constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed their work of art.

The use of multiple-exposure techniques to create eerie, ghostlike effects in photography and film is a trope that most of us are familiar with. The work of photographer David Samuel Stern, however, stands out in that he eschews both the usual analog and digital means of achieving such effects. Instead, in his “Woven Portrait” series, Stern physically weaves together two prints of the same subject.

These images are the result of physically weaving together two photographic . They are an attempt to bridge dignified, direct portraits with a sort of abstraction that allows their subjects to hide within themselves, and the photographs to be distinctly physical objects. In hiding some things, we could reveal others from it.

These images result from physically interlocking photographic prints in such a way that they present the body both individually and cumulatively. Classical sculpture and traditional depictions of the nude solidly convey the unambiguity of representational ideals. The photographic image of the nude, however, lays its own nature bare.

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