Gallery: These Trippy, Warped Sculptures Are Actually Human Portraits
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Justine Khamara turns portraits into sculptures. *Orbital Spin Trick #1* (2013). This plywood and photography sculpture is 50 x 50 cm. *Image: John Brash*
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*Dispersion #1.* Every detail you see—the thin, perfectly aligned strips of a face, the intricate fish net-like weaving—is done by hand. *Photographer: John Brash*
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*Untitled* Khamara started working with photographs as an undergraduate, right before digital totally took over. *Photographer: John Brash*
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Though *Rotation Around a Fixed Axis #1* (2013) looks like it was digitally manipulated, it's actually made from a hand-cut photograph. *Photographer: John Brash*
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*Godfinger #2* (2010). Each arm was cut out by hand and had a reverse copy so each piece became double-sided. This was to give the work a visual density. The arms were then stuck onto a cardboard armature which was assembled to make the three-dimensional structure. *Photographer: John Brash*
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*Untitled*. To create the profile, Khamara ran a blade up a single print in a continuous line, starting at the back of the head, which resulted in wavy strips. *Photographer: John Brash*
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*Vertical Alliteration #12013*. Khamara started working with photographs as an undergraduate, right before digital totally took over. *Photographer: John Brash*
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*Now I Am a Radiant People #2* (2011)."The thing that I find myself grappling with, is the passing of time and how we remember or fail to remember and how inadequate, in the end, photographs are when it comes to preserving the memory of those nearest to us," she says. *Photographer: John Brash*
