Paper Doll Series

Paper Doll Series
2009

I fragment and measure my drawings on paper from images found in magazines, newspapers, catalogues, other media sources, and personal photos. I create new intrupetations of the appropriated image by inter-changing its corresponding shapes and form - possibly offering other narratives or compositional abstractions. For this on going series, I am interested to create imagery reflecting the manipulation of the body. More importantly, investigating ideas of sexuality, fetish, gay male identity, gender, racial identity, social behavior, body image, and camp.

My method of fragmenting and measuring allows me to describe and map out what I see.

I detail the image's individual shapes with specific measurements (x inches) and in some adding their corresponding degree angles (360 degrees - Y degrees = Z degrees) to detail and describe the measurements of the geometric shapes that make the whole.

This repetitive and meditative process of drawing engages me to investigate the meaning of the image through measurements as a stand-in for language and offering an alternative description by objective means.

Enrique Castrejon