Infant,
adolescent and adult portraits of Adolf Hitler that I tore apart and then used
to create a collage. I was playing around with his facial expressions until I
came up with the image pictured. What you see is his left eye as a three year old, his nose, mouth and
chin as a teenager and the rest of his face and upper bust as an adult. Here, nuanced gestures are employed by controlling a tilt of the head, a slight shift of the eye or a drop of the chin. In this small way, the process of working with the images brought the subject to life
for me. Interestingly, the innocence and vulnerability typical of childhood
images are lost on the collective monstrous end result.
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