Carnival, 1996
Carnival, 1996
Carnival is about the festival of life. During Carnival anonymity of the participants is accomplished by the wearing of masks. These maskes hide the emotions, gender and identity of its wearer. The origins of the word carnival comes from carne - meat, and levare - to remove. Carne can also symbolize an indulgence or sensual desire which this work speaks about. My images were constructed from cut-outs from National Geographic magazines, which I have read for my entire life. These were pasted to cardboard and layered over double and triple page foldouts, then photographed through a hand-made panoramic pinhole camera. My carnival exists as an installation using a central monitor with a Macromedia Director interactive movie, flanked to either side by 20 inch by 90 inch duratran photographs on light boxes of the pinhole photographs.