This is a series of self portraits which collaborates make up techniques based on tribal & indian gods, merged with staged photographs mimicking ‘deity’ imagery. This is in no way an attack on religion, but it is to show that with a couple of hours spare and some make up, that iconic imagery, using these simple elements and lighting techniques can be produced. The colours used are supposed to produce a richness similar to those used throughout iconic paintings, to portray a grandeur displaying an iconicity used by many artists today. This was 30 minutes in a thrown together studio space, but the images produced seem a million miles away from reality.

Pattern I made using a repeat of one of the images from the series