Giving "Four Eyes" A Whole New Meaning

September 12, 2014 4:19 PM

This Girl's Body Art Forces Viewers To Question Where Reality Ends And Nightmares Begin
posted by Michele in California (29 comments total)

I found everything neat and not nightmarish until the quad eyes, that one always gets me.
posted by Drinky Die at 4:19 PM on September 12, 2014 [2 favorites]

Very very cool and creepy.
posted by Kitteh at 4:24 PM on September 12, 2014 [1 favorite]

Slightly NSFW for those still at the office on a Friday evening.
posted by supercres at 4:35 PM on September 12, 2014 [1 favorite]

It doesn't seem to loading in Chrome or FF? I can access imgur but otherwise this page is just blank after the description.
posted by chrono_rabbit at 4:36 PM on September 12, 2014 [1 favorite]

Oops. Sorry. I don't have a regular job. It's MILD. But, yeah, some nudity and possibly NSFW. Maybe a mod could add a warning?
posted by Michele in California at 4:37 PM on September 12, 2014

Are these all pictures of the artist? How does she do the ones on her back?
posted by dilaudid at 4:38 PM on September 12, 2014

Long live the New Flesh
posted by Auden at 4:51 PM on September 12, 2014 [2 favorites]

The four eyes phenomena is astounding. Someone on reddit posted a line drawing of a four-eyes face, and I could not focus on it. A drawing of someone yawning doesn't make me yawn, but a drawing of a fake image makes reality melt around me. Eyes must be coded in below the firmware level, somehow.
posted by davemee at 4:56 PM on September 12, 2014 [2 favorites]

It doesn't seem to loading in Chrome or FF?

Not in chrome for me, but yes in FF.
posted by Obscure Reference at 5:01 PM on September 12, 2014

Girl?
posted by So You're Saying These Are Pants? at 5:02 PM on September 12, 2014

You'll be a woman, soon.
posted by adipocere at 5:07 PM on September 12, 2014 [11 favorites]

Please, come take my disturbingly tattooed hand
posted by Auden at 5:20 PM on September 12, 2014 [7 favorites]

Girl?
posted by 7segment at 5:36 PM on September 12, 2014

nthing Girl?

She's clearly a womyn.
posted by jingzuo at 5:56 PM on September 12, 2014

If she could find a way to make these into fancier versions of temporary tattoos, that would be epic.
posted by InsertNiftyNameHere at 6:18 PM on September 12, 2014 [2 favorites]

chrono_rabbit: “It doesn't seem to loading in Chrome or FF? I can access imgur but otherwise this page is just blank after the description.”

I was unable to get the execrable Distractify page to load properly even after fiddling with my defenses. The artist's website has all the photos available and works fine if you allow Javascript.
posted by ob1quixote at 6:23 PM on September 12, 2014 [3 favorites]

I'd love to have the mouth as a temporary tattoo for my hand for use in some meetings. "Triple productivity? No!"
posted by arcticseal at 6:34 PM on September 12, 2014

Are these all pictures of the artist? How does she do the ones on her back?

Given that it's not the same model for all the paintings, I would bet none of them are done on the artist herself.
posted by mdn at 6:55 PM on September 12, 2014

Those are fantastic. I have a painting by a body artist who makes paintings of the subjects with his paintings on them. It's really cool stuff.
posted by xingcat at 7:45 PM on September 12, 2014

It doesn't seem to loading in Chrome or FF? I can access imgur but otherwise this page is just blank after the description.

I had to turn adblock off to see them.

I saw these and immediately wanted one of the battery or plug ones as a tattoo. Very cool.
posted by NoraReed at 7:47 PM on September 12, 2014

I especially love this one , from her website. Looks like he is sliding one of the books from the stack.
posted by misha at 7:52 PM on September 12, 2014 [2 favorites]

Oh, and the Making up making up video is adorable!
posted by misha at 7:56 PM on September 12, 2014 [1 favorite]

I'm sorry but these are terrible. Completely adolescent. And the site is a cut rate buzzfeed.
posted by TonyRobots at 10:24 PM on September 12, 2014 [1 favorite]

I have no mouth and I must oh wait there it is.
posted by FatherDagon at 12:01 AM on September 13, 2014 [1 favorite]

This (NSFW-nudity) is another interesting piece of bodypaint trompe l'oeil.
posted by mikurski at 2:18 AM on September 13, 2014

Hm. I've known a number of parents who wished their teen came complete with a big OFF switch in their forehead.

Overall, a very nice example of technique.
posted by happyroach at 4:21 AM on September 13, 2014

I liked the one with a zipper, opened to show you her back ... with a zipper.
posted by Joe in Australia at 5:12 AM on September 13, 2014

And she has apparently done some political work of a sort some folks here would approve of: Here is her art piece for the campaign My body, My Rights (SFW).
posted by Michele in California at 9:25 AM on September 13, 2014

Nicely executed, and I say that as a signwriter. Not all of them are new or mature ideas, but they're still well done. Thanks for posting!
posted by Too-Ticky at 6:03 AM on September 14, 2014 [1 favorite]