In this week's post Beth posted a composite image created by social psychologists. That reminded me of this image contemporary artist Do Ho Suh created by layering all of the yearbook photos in his high school year book with his photo on the top. Beth spoke about how the composite image of a number of different women was overwhelmingly rated as beautiful, and I this that the image resulting from Do Ho Suh’s composite is pretty beautiful and striking as well, but I don’t know if it’s simply because it’s an average of a number of different face. Because it’s black and white Do Ho Suh’s image has an otherworldly almost ghostlike quality. I love the blurred edges around the sides of the face and shoulders that almost look like hair running down his back. It’s really strange how well defined the features all are. I would not have expected that many peoples face to match up so well to make such a clear, well defined face. It makes you realize that there are not as many differences between our features as is usually assumed. Being from Korea, a lot of Do Ho Suh’s work deals with the emphasis in that culture of the importance of the collective over the individual. The individual must give up their personal identity for the good of the whole. One individual person may not be beautiful, but when combined with so many others they become beautiful together.
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