The Dormant 1

by Veronica Huacuja

Title

The Dormant 1

Artist

Veronica Huacuja

Medium

Drawing - Ink On Paper

Description

Title: The Dormant 1
Artist: Veronica Huacuja
Medium: Ink, color pencils, on paper
Size: 28 X 21.5 X 0.1 cm
Year: 2023
Collection: Portraits
Subseries: The Dormants

This work has an interesting process. I have been studying Alphonse Bertillon’s (1853-1914, France) work. As we may know, he was a police officer “and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement, creating an identification system based on physical measurements”. (1)

Bertillon also photographed the offenders to identify them (he captured their profile and front views). Nowadays, we know these techniques as mugshots.

I produced a series of three busts based on several mugshots done by Bertillon to offenders almost a hundred years ago. In “The Dormants”, I incorporated Bertillon’s characters in a new environment, adding to their garment eccentric hats, emulating Lewis Carroll’s version of the mad hatter, and giving them a new personality.

This sketch is based on one of the cited busts.

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1. Wikipedia (n.d.). Alphonse Bertillon. Retrieved on September 10, 2023 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Bertillon

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