This 'portrait' of the artist’s wife, Laura, belongs to an ongoing series he calls 'chemical celestial portraits of inner and outer space.' Tomaselli creates likenesses based on each sitter’s astrological...
This "portrait" of the artist’s wife, Laura, belongs to an ongoing series he calls "chemical celestial portraits of inner and outer space." Tomaselli creates likenesses based on each sitter’s astrological sign and the star map for his or her date of birth. The corresponding constellation is comprised of stars named after the various drugs the subject remembers consuming, from cold medicine to cocaine. The result is an unconventional map of identity that cleverly weds the mystical and the pharmacological.