Silhouettes

A silhouette represents a person or object in a solid shape coming out of a lighter background. The interior is featureless and often black. The form is not linear but something deeper. Historically the silhouette has been used in conjunction with the portrait in offering an insight to, and recognition of a person's identity. Skillful in creation, greater importance was always granted to the painting or photograph.

With so many ways to identify today - how can we examine a person’s identity through portraiture? Silhouettes uses the photograph to begin the dialogue on how much visual information we need to evaluate a portrait and to contemplate a person’s being.