Exquisite Trash

This started out as simple nod to Tseng Kwong Chi, but turned into something with more of meaning than I ever thought. When I first approached this homage to Chi, I set out to recreate one of his Expeditionary Self-Portraits, but we happen to be in the beginning of this chaotic mess we call our current daily lives(Covid Pandemic). With the limited ability to travel to “standard” photographic sites I turned to the neighborhood dumpster as my backdrop. This was the spark that it took for me to explore the works that I am presenting. The series is of self-portraits is within the scope of Chi’s “Ambiguous Ambassador” formula with a little punk twist.