5004 _ PUPPETFACE

StudioJanaFlohr. - 2002 - cotton, rice, transferpaper - Art piece

People tend to strive for perfection, in their work, their love life, their appearance.
But how desirable, if even possible, is it to achieve that goal?

In a search for a perfect face, I edited pictures of myself to the same proportions dolls have.
The result was not so much beautiful as it was scary and lifeless.

The different faces were printed on dummy-shaped dolls and scattered around the places I used to visit.

Even though the dolls’ faces turned out to be quite sinister and alien-like, seeing the dolls in these hostile environments made me care for them, and I decided to keep them save in my possession as a constant reminder that perfection is not worth striving for and there is no place in the real world where perfection will ever be in his place, for perfection is static and cannot exist in a dynamic environment.