FACE FARCES: A Proposal

So there is this artist named Arnulf (!!) Rainer from Austria. He has this piece, and numerous phases of it called Face Farces. It...is...amazing...as you may see. Here is a little of what he has to say about it:

During the sixties I drew faces day after day, faces which I had never seen, veiled and deformed, ugly grimaces, twisting profiles...During moments of intensive drawing these caricatures mirrored themselves into my own face muscles. I grimaced with them...so I decided to transform it from paper to flesh. I frequently would sit in a photo booth and practice self mirror images which I then documented photographically. Curious types would always open the curtains and chase me away. Today I work with a photographer. I had a great deal to relate to myself by means of these faces, especially when under the influence of alcohol. These anti-yoga tragic-comic poses, mannered clowneries and tired gestures without grace, chic or charm do not ask for a harmonious physical expression, but for a search for the unlimited possibilities and the unlikely people who are concealed in all of us. -Arnulf Rainer 1971

WOWO! I dig I dig. Anyhow, I love faces, I love funny faces, I love all of your faces, and I want to take pictures of you mimicking Arnulf and his farces and I want to draw them and I want there to be a million funny faces in a million different ways.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN GETTING INEBRIATED AND SITTING IN FRONT OF ME WHILE I PHOTOGRAPH YOU CONTORTING YOUR FACE MUSCLES PLEASE DIRECT ALL INQUIRIES TO MJENSEN@CLARKU.EDU