Pinar's Blog Posts Tagged 'Michael Mapes' (1)

Dissected Portraits Preserved in Specimen Boxes

New York-based artist Michael Mapes takes documentation and preservation to another level. His series of works found in his virtual museum called Room 62 display tubes, glass vials, plastic bags, and gelatin capsules filled with "specimens" in an enclosed shelf. Each encased box has a unique subject whose physical identity is represented in a series of dissected photographs,…

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Added by Pinar on May 4, 2012 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

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