The Stars Eat Your Body, Now

Benjamin Fedosky, MFA 2023, Ceramics

This work takes an exploratory approach to the language of portraiture through ideas of impermanence and multiplicity. My process-based practice is experimental, contingent, and driven by a fascination with the human face, materiality, and visual perception. I have abandoned conventional ideas associated with likeness and identification, and instead treat the figure as a landscape of expression through fragmentation, abstraction, and iteration. For me, this perspective raises interesting questions surrounding representation. When a portrait is stripped of its traditional function, what is left and what is conveyed? How stable is appearance? What determines individuality versus anonymity, and what does that transformative space look like?