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The works of artist Daniel Martin is mainly about defiled faces with unsettling expressions which is a subject that I also love to paint my self and represent in my own works. He creates portraits that seem to have been deliberately damaged after being painted with the actions of dragging paint or smudging it looks as if the works were painted with a brush then gone over with a Pallet knife to give an distorted image. He says he finds inspiration in imperfections, for example, a misshapen tree, a ratio affected by chaos. His art to me is a representation of the chaos theory. He writes in his statement that the “violation of appearance is anonymous and sidelines the individual’s identity and character, and it makes the faces dissolve or return in nature’s chaos”

The portraits disturb the viewer, also they tend to be valuable in the sense that they give space to deformity and deficiency in a positive representation. this process and out comes of his work challenge the popular culture on the idea of beauty in an artistic creative direction. D

Daniel explains: “Deformation of the objects lets them fall into a new shape, modified by combination, or by applied force such as burning, submerging in water, twisting and crushing. This applied force makes the objects leave their original context and take on characteristics of other materials because of the underlying structure. Cloth becomes skin, stone becomes bone. There is a recurrence of patterns in nature on large and small scales.”

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