Title: Redacted Beauty Date: 2024 Medium: Digital Image Size: 15x20
“Redacted Beauty” is a digital portrait created through layering, fragmentation, and manipulated distortion. Within this piece are glitched textures, a pattern of overlaid texts, and transposed color channels. The words “NO ENTRY”, “Parental Advisory”, and “For Your Safety” interrupt the viewer’s ability to view the subject to see the face of the subject matter clearly. What does remain visible is a face appearing through the interference, encouraging how self-image can be formed or restricted by outside forces such as cultural labels, societal pressures, or the pandemonium of public recognition.