Just when you think you have seen about all you could bear from the collage trend you stumble upon Lucas Simoes, an artist/architect out of Sao Paulo, Brazil who creates bizarrely wonderful portraits using 10 layers of cut-out photographs. Simoes has a unique way of capturing his portraits, he starts out by listening to music on his headphones, with songs that are pre-chosen for him by his friends. Then he photographs and carefully captures the facial expressions of his friends, while they each reveal to him an intimate secret. He also asks each one to identify a color for their secret, to which determine the color for his final portraits. But these amazing pieces look as complex as they do because he cuts and overlaps about 10 different portraits of each person until they takes a life of its own. Some of his figures are identifiable but others blur the line of obscurity and into the realm of pixels as they all possess great levels of precision, pattern and shape.
Simoes also does a lot of other interesting work with photography, movement, form and narrative in his quase-cinema, perverso, and desmanche series that are definitely worth checking out. Here is a look at his desmemorias [unmemories] collection, I can’t get enough of them! even though the pieces are bound by one concept, each of them are entirely different from the other:
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