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The Art of Tearing Familiar Faces Apart

Cutting up CORTIS James's face and slicing Devon Aoki into pieces. In photographs, of course. To collage artist BadFarmer, a celebrity's face is less an object of admiration and more a promising material.

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Cutting up CORTIS James's face and slicing Devon Aoki into pieces. In photographs, of course. To collage artist BadFarmer, a celebrity's face is less an object of admiration and more a promising material. He boldly cuts out eyes, mouths, and bodies, inserting unexpected images to twist the faces we know into something unfamiliar. His work doesn't stop at flat collage. The severed fragments meet music, move, and come back to life as brief animations.

A method to make the faces we've grown tired of seeing on our feeds every day feel brand new again. Familiarity sometimes breeds numbness. BadFarmer dismantles that comfort, shooting fluorescent beams over star studded eyes or replacing mouths with vibrant geometric shapes. He's turning the images that dominate our daily scroll into a new kind of visual play. If a face you know ends up under his scissors next, is it destruction or rebirth?

FAQ

Who is Bad Farmer?

Bad Farmer is an artist who creates collage work using celebrity faces as raw material. He boldly cuts up famous faces like Cortis James and Devon Aoki, inserting unfamiliar images to make the familiar strange. His collages often combine with music to become short animations.

What characterizes Bad Farmer's collage work?

Bad Farmer's collages extend beyond the flat plane into animation. Cut face fragments move to music, shooting fluorescent beams over eyes or replacing mouths with geometric shapes, twisting familiar images to create new visual experiences.

Whose faces does Bad Farmer typically work with?

Bad Farmer primarily works with celebrity faces like Cortis James and Devon Aoki. He uses familiar faces seen daily on feeds as raw material, deconstructing and reconstructing them with unfamiliar images to make them feel completely new.