"In the cult of the dead, images were at first accessories to performances -masks, makeup, costumes, and disguises. Only later did they separate from the body and replicate the latter as a doll or a fetish. In the first instance they were borne directly on the body of the person; in the second, they received an independent existence so as to invoke a body comparison and to assume the place of the body. The goal of the substitution was either to transform a body into an image or to duplicate a body. The image body did not need to demonstrate its fundamental resemblance to a body because it was created solely for the sake of this analogy and thus could not resemble anything other than a body -not a particular body, but the body as such." » Ibid.

:: {2022} :: {anna X dall·e 2} :: dall·e variation of polaroid selfportrait from Pantyheads series as image input, crayon on inkjet print, paper collage :: @annaxmalina :: annamalina.com