Face Corsets by Paddy Hartley
We previously blogged about Paddy Hartley’s Project Facade, cialis a uniform-sculpture exploration of wartime trauma and facial reconstruction. But before Hartley became known for Project Facade, ambulance 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?
October 17th, 2008 at 4:57 am
The pictures of face corsets were some of the most bizzare, facinating and ultimately entertaining things I have seen in ages.
Discovered your site while exploring, it’s absoloutlwey brilliant. Long live coilhouse!
SWEENEY
December 2nd, 2009 at 7:15 am
Anyone see that movie Brazil? The protagonist’s mother is perpetually getting cosmetic work done. this sort of reminds me of that
January 11th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
The purple lips creep me out! That’s killer stuff but the lips man… The lips