MOUTHS: 2009
Piece composed by 24 diptychs (shown: selection) depicting the mouths of people who have focused their lives around words. Reflects on the expressive language of the mouth and the association/dissociation of the mouth with what is being said. Each person is represented by two mouth positions emphasizing the idea of talk.
People included: Pope Benedict XVI, Margaret Thatcher, Condoleezza Rice, Joseph Goebbels, Ezra Pound, Evita Peron, Hermann Goering, Samuel Beckett, Leni Riefenstahl, Goya's depiction of two women, Silvio Berlusconi, Robert Mugabe, Benazir Bhutto, La Papessa (Olimpia Maidalchini), General Manuel Noriega, Hillary Clinton, Indira Gandhi, Simone de Beauvoir, Tony Blair, Imelda Marcos and a still from Williamson's 'The Big Swallow', 1901.
