Artist Michael Mapes combines a bit of science with art for his “human specimen” series. He takes his own photographs, and then dissects and composes the pieces into box frames. Within each casing, he generally includes “hundreds of photographic samples and ‘personal/biographical DNA’ such as eyelashes, fingernails, fingerprints, dried tears, pet hair, botanical material, and family matter.”
Diego Velázquez, Portrait of Pope Innocent X (circa 1650) / Francis Bacon, Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953). One of my favorite examples of “remix culture”, although you’ll never hear an art historian call it that.
