Ben Golden

Personal work

Generation Loss

The only face I have a right to is my own, so I fed it to the machine. Nine frames of what came back.

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The only face I have the right to do this to

SeriesNine frames SourceiPhone video TreatmentConverted by a model, baked down to tape RuleThe only likeness I can use is my own.
  • A bald man in glasses and a maroon sweater seated in a living room. 01
  • The same man with fine metal pins covering his scalp. 02
  • His left eye has become a dark slot in a field of pins. 03
  • The pin surface has spread down the left side of his face. 04
  • He is wearing his glasses again over a half converted face. 05
  • Both eyes are now slots behind his glasses, one lens catching the light. 06
  • His face is fully converted to pins, his ear and neck still skin. 07
  • His glasses sit on a fully converted pin head. 08
  • A featureless pin sculpture of a head and shoulders in the same room. 09

The room never changes. Same lamp, same chair, same door, while the man in front of them stops being one.