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Mass Produced Self gathers images of my face in a collage reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s art factory work. Unlike Warhol’s mass printing, these images are handmade cyanotypes, posing a poignant critique: can the artist still infuse manual authenticity into the images created in the late-stage capitalist and digital world?
Paradoxically, while the color is developed from the sun, the cyanotype blue also refers to the blue light that emanates from digital devices. The print exists in a liminal space between the sporadic “natural” environment and the reproducible art of the digital universe. The viewer is asked: does posting and sharing images of the self online make authenticity, the sharpest image, disappear over time?