Amanda Clyne is a Toronto based artist who's work aims to reify the fragile nature of looking and the yearning to be seen. She first studied at the school of visual arts in NewYork before graduating with the prestigious drawing and painting medal from OCAD university in 2009.
Her work is really cool because from far away it looks like a regular photo but as you focus on the photo itself and the subjects in the photo you see fragments of faces disguised in one another. The effect is like a hideous beauty.
I love the colours Amanda uses in her paintings because she manages to give a feel to each one. The right and middle paintings look very raw because of the pale blues and reds where as the left painting is quite fashionable looking, almost even mediterranean.
This is a digit recreation of Amanda's work that I created using photoshop. It creates a great effect despite how simple it is to produce. I just took two photos and then layered them on top of one another and then used the polygonal lasso tool to select rectangle sections on the top layer which I deleted to reveal the underneath layer. The angle makes the photo look very sinister because I took it as a selfie so the eyes are sort of looking up and staring into the camera.
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