The Enchanted Self 2016 - ongoing

The text in the image draws inspiration from an online article in Seventeen Magazine (8 December 2015) titled "There are 8 Kinds of Selfie Faces Every Girl Makes On Instagram." Conducting an internet search using the term “selfie faces that girls need to know” on Google.com on 6 December 2021 yielded thirteen named poses. It occurred to me that if women and girls were adopting these named poses, they were probably incorporating the corresponding hashtag, such as #duckface, with their images. This text serves as a surrogate representation for a body, it is text as image. Impact typeface was used because of its association with memes, which are known for their rapid dissemination across social media platforms.

Exhibited as prints face mounted on acrylic and on screen (Print sizes vary from 5x4in - 50in x 40in)