Thinking of Leigh

Having recently had the opportunity to revisit the work of Gareth Pugh in his SHOWstudio video Make-Up-Athon, I suddeny remembered this short clip of Leigh Bowery.  A crude precursor to Pugh's video below, it nevertheless has comparative resonances with transgressive make up and performance.

Bowery as Cosmetic Icon

Please read Leigh Bowery's Immaculate Conception in Frieze Magazine, it clearly manifests many of the concerns that I have been pondering in my journey of discovering the face as canvas. Bowery as cosmetic icon is clearly an early influence on how I conceive the face to be considered, where conventional Westernized beauty ideals are dissolved on the journey to discovering how to position ourselves in a future that holds cosmetic technology via the surgeons scalpel as God.