These shots represent personal work that stems from my ability to memorize faces even from a single glance. In a "what if" scenario, I keep wondering what would happen if I was a cat or a giraffe by birth -- what would human faces look like to me, then?
What if faces were covered in fur, or what if instead of regular veins, I could see the vein skeleton of a leaf through human skin? What if the casual beholder could not readily discern whether he saw something beautiful or ugly in my picture? When a person sees what I did to their face in the picture, they seem momentarily confused. All the people on the pictures consented to being portrayed. As the series contains four self-portraits, I had to consent four times, too.
I just had to make something like this. Had I chosen a different medium than pictures, they would have been made of macaroni or sculpted in snow, or otherwise expressed in one fashion or another. However, it's a past period of my art, something I no longer try because it distracts me from the now.