This is a series of collages produced generatively; each from a spread of pictures derived and painted over from a screenshot from “Tanin no kao”; a beautiful Japanese classic film written by Kôbô Abe and directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. In the film; Mr Okuyama (portreyed by Tatsuya Nakadai) wears this mask/face of the man with with a mole (played by Hisashi Igawa) in an effort to seduce his own wife as someone else.

“The face is just a few dozen square inches above the neck, covered with a layer of dough. Isn't that right? I wanted to think so. I told myself a million times it was only a layer of skin, a surface. But now I'm not so sure. The face is the door to the soul. When the face is closed off, so too is the soul. Nobody is allowed inside. The soul is left to rot, reduced to ruins. It becomes the soul of a monster, rotten to the core. I feel as if I've been buried alive.”