Fragmented Faces

After looking at John Stezaker's work, and how his work affects part of facial features, rather than always changing the features as a whole, I decided to experiment with this idea in my own work. I used some of my own photos I had taken previously as images to use in front of the face and one photo of the female to male transgender pornstar Buck Angel. I wanted, in that one image, to explore the idea of using a person whose gender identity is already outside of the sociological norm. I think this could be an interesting idea but one I need to consider more thoroughly at a different time.

The other images, that I had created myself, I cut so that they sat either vertically or diagonally across the subject's face, fragmenting their face. I find the photo in which the subject's eyes are distorted and fragmented by the image in front, so that half the eyes showing belong to the subject and half to the image in front, the most interesting in terms of how the viewer would look at it. 

As the eyes are 'broken' and fragmented, and the eyes are what the viewer initially focuses on, it makes the photo actually quite difficult to look at. This is interesting as people who physically deviate from the norm, according to society, are often avoided by the public, who sometimes don't want to look at them. This also links to Garland-Thomson's idea of the 'stare' that disabled people ore often subject to. 
 I want to further fragment the faces of my subjects by using the already very fragmented images in front of them. I want to keep doing this until the image becomes almost like shattered glass.
 The images over the subjects, the 'masks' don't have to be linear, I could marge a few of them crossed over so fragmented sections of the subject's face shows underneath.