HBS

I started HBS sarcastically, but its meaning expanded fairly quickly. Having created one of these images for “DOG”, I took to mimicking the ‘‘head brightening’’ effect across a number of images taken within minutes of each other at the Doge’s palace, Venice. The idea was to produce a series of images that look similar enough to feel like a project, but with no more meaning than if I had only produced a single image.

The premise of the series was to interrogate reiteration. Why does repeating yourself in a speech make it sound more important? Does the human psyche have its own logo/s? Identifying repetition sometimes works as a kind of sad, cynical marker for those looking quickly at some art to get a “sense of what the artist is about”. So HBS, aka “Head Brightening Series”, was meant to address this in the least meaningful way I could, as a critique of rushed looking. Somewhere along the line my engagement with the series went from ironic baiting to something a bit more complex.