Friday 22 January 2010

Burn Out


Self Portrait of you and Me (Marianne Faithfull)
Douglas Gordon


Strangely drawn to this series by Gordon.. Not entirely sure of the process - either burning and cutting out sections of the image to transform it to another thing altogether.

The images are of celebrities/famous people: surely a conscious decision on Gordon's part. All are a little reminiscent of stereotyped stalker-like behaviour, and of destroying photos of an ex: The catharsis of destroying the image to physically expel all the built up emotional anger..

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