Metamorphosis - Conte on Charcoal - Isaac McCaslin
In this piece I believe the artist is using deconstruction in a formal way in which he is gradaually breaking away from the academic style on the upper left. As the image precedes he breaks down the figure in a way that focuses in on the important parts of the figure as a character. He finds these distinguishable traits and plays on them, and embodies them to be the character itself.
The image at the bottom right corner is the last in the series. Viewing it one can get an essence of the figure that has been broken down. There is now a personality that we can see has been peeled away from the self portrait that is presented in the upper left corner.
Self Portrait (1/2 gram of cocaine) -Brian Lewis Saunders
Saunders is an artist who plays with the idea of deconstruction of identity. Saunders specializes is portraiture and repeatedly creates self-portraits that are created in alter states of mind induced by drugs of a variety.
This piece is one that is far from the standard self portrait. I like that the rendering is more to capture the mood of the person and is less involved with capturing every wrinkle and shadow. In the piece you can feel the angst that has been created by capturing a pure emotion. I believe his identity is being revealed and it creates a powerful piece by creating this almost "alter-ego"entity. This begins to even start to tell a story for me.
Henrietta Harris
I like this piece so much because the deconstruction is so obvious, and done so well. It created a smeared effect as the middle portion of the head moves out and off the visual surface. It creates an effect of floating of the canvas and breaking away from frame. As it glides we are still able to capture this figure as a person through the distorted paint.
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