Fragmented Faces
Experimental portrait series exploring identity through fragmentation.
This project explores the face as a fragmented landscape.
I photographed members of my family making different expressions and selected specific facial elements that caught my attention — eyes, teeth, tongues, gestures.
By isolating these fragments and recomposing them, the portraits begin to distort while still remaining recognizable, questioning the idea of identity as something fixed.
Topographic Mapping
Each portrait was translated into a topographic map.
The maps identify the facial fragments selected from the photographs and organize them into layered territories, inspired by contour maps used to represent landscapes.
Layer Construction
Using the maps as guides, the portraits were manually cut with a scalpel.
Each layer was partially removed to reveal fragments from the images underneath, allowing different expressions and facial elements to merge into a single distorted identity.