Manifesto

In the reimagining of the human experience in relationship to new environmental adaptation – the mask becomes the symbol of one’s acquiescence to external forces imposed upon the self. I ask, if we must wear a mask, why not wear a mask that reflects the inner world of the true self?

I like to create my own interpretation of someone’s face.  I like to look at my subject and create a mask that reflects my vision of their identity. I think the human face is boring. I want to see an amplified persona; a bigger spectacle of something that excites me in a new human form.  If this cultural tabula rasa rewrites us, let it begin with all of us; as people, as faces, as identities. Let us remake each other completely - as art - beyond race, gender, flesh and beyond emotion.  

If we are to embark on a cultural reset, let it be a total explosion of color and gesture of environmental form, conscious and unconscious expression.

I ask, if we must wear a mask as a condition of social interaction and acceptance into the commerce of exchange -why not a mask of one’s own creation?  Cannot the individual become the environment - an entirely new identity – non-toxic – non-human – new material – new texture – new meat?

Can we not be something other than the imposed narrative?

In this moment of cultural transference of meaning wrapped in acceptance of the dominate message or as a symbol of resistance to hegemony of that message – the human face itself is a site of political agency.

As the son of an Anthropologist, I was raised to be an observer of the human experience.  My career has been one of capturing, as An artist-photographer, the beauty of raw personality and exposing the complexities and difficulties within human constraint. 

​We are beautifully temporary and ultimately reusable. Does this render us as the last organic expression of cultural direction?

Starcevich Art - Manifesto, Miguel Starcevich