We previously blogged about Paddy Hartley’s Project Facade, a uniform-sculpture exploration of wartime trauma and facial reconstruction. But before Hartley became known for Project Facade, he received international acclaim for another project – a series of face corsets focused on exploring attitudes towards plastic surgery and ideals of facial beauty.
The bioglass and cinching invoke Botox, collagen, implants and other techniques that stretch and compress our faces into their ideal shape – but only temporarily. Hartley elaborates on these ideas and more in an excellent interview over at We Make Money not Art.
Any man who puts pictures like this of himself on the internet in order to make an artistic point has our respect forever.
More face corsets after the jump!
All images courtesy of Paddy Hartley.
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Fantastic find! Facial bondage has always been of particular interest to me.
October 24th, 2007 at 12:25 am
Ooooh, I approve!
October 24th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
That’s particularly impressive!
When I saw the first image I thought there were a woman’s fingers enmeshing his face.
October 25th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Now we know why and how Angelina looks the way she does…wonder if she has to enlist Brad to help her put on the apparatus?