The Erasure of Identity

An abstract black and white psychological portrait of a woman whose head and face are slowly being erased by horizontal motion. Her dark hair, forehead, eyes, nose and cheeks stretch toward one side of the frame like wet charcoal dragged across white paper. Only the neck and upper torso remain relatively solid. She wears a minimal black top against an almost pure white background. The disappearing facial structure becomes increasingly transparent until it fades completely into thin gray streaks. Concept of fading memory and forgotten identity, monochrome surrealism, analog photographic distortion, realistic motion smear, soft grain, delicate texture, strong negative space, quiet unsettling atmosphere, museum quality conceptual photography.