4ft x 4ft (122 × 122 cm)
Original Decollage on Cradled Wood Panel (7.5 cm)
Diamond Dust Face
Created using appropriated film and cultural posters, spray paint, marker, stencils and halftone portrait work, with diamond dust applied to the face.
Layers are built, torn back and reworked over time, embedding detail within the surface.
The face is finished in diamond dust so the light hits it the way attention hit her - unavoidable.
Marilyn Monroe didn’t get to own her image.
The world took it, shaped it and sold it back.
This piece works against that.
It puts the texture, the noise, the human underneath back in the picture.
No neon crown here - because this one isn’t about declaring status.
It’s about the cost of being seen.
Look closely and you’ll find fragments tied to her films, and the media machine that built and broke her.
Some details show immediately. Others take time - the longer the work is around you, the more it reveals.
This artwork is no longer available.
It remains in the archive as part of the ongoing record of figures who became symbols first, people second.
4ft x 4ft (122 × 122 cm)
Original Decollage on Cradled Wood Panel (7.5 cm)
Diamond Dust Face
Created using appropriated film and cultural posters, spray paint, marker, stencils and halftone portrait work, with diamond dust applied to the face.
Layers are built, torn back and reworked over time, embedding detail within the surface.
The face is finished in diamond dust so the light hits it the way attention hit her - unavoidable.
Marilyn Monroe didn’t get to own her image.
The world took it, shaped it and sold it back.
This piece works against that.
It puts the texture, the noise, the human underneath back in the picture.
No neon crown here - because this one isn’t about declaring status.
It’s about the cost of being seen.
Look closely and you’ll find fragments tied to her films, and the media machine that built and broke her.
Some details show immediately. Others take time - the longer the work is around you, the more it reveals.
This artwork is no longer available.
It remains in the archive as part of the ongoing record of figures who became symbols first, people second.
