My work often looks to relationships between the past and the present, and most specifically to our idealized or romantic notions of a time other than our own. For Mugs, I cut silhouettes of prohibition-era/early 20th century gangsters and bank robbers, drawing their likenesses directly from their arrest photographs. Placed in the context of 19th century Romantic landscapes, the resulting images exaggerate the rose-coloured spectacles through which we often view these unsavory criminals, and perhaps the spectacles begin to crack.

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