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The Dipped Painting Project by Oliver Jeffers

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From children’s book author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers, a project that explores memory and loss in a mix of art and experience: The Dipped Painting Project.

In November of 2014 I began the first of a series of performances wereby I dipped my own fully painted portraits into vats of enamel paints. It is a process that permanently hides parts of the portrait’s features.

You can see more paintings from the project on his site.

Oliver Jeffers with an audience
Oliver Jeffers' dipped paintings
Oliver Jeffers watches a painting after it is dipped
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