Levinas was a Jewish philosopher who wrote about the face-to-face encounter in his 1961 book Totality and Infinity. "Emmanuel Levinas has this notion that the origin of our ethical obligations to the other emerge out of this moment of the face-to-face encounter," said Pearl. And I will be forced to draw myself the way that you see me." The face-to-face encounter Just take screenshots of me and don't tell me, then send me one or more that you really like. "Working ethically, I'm like, well, OK, so how can I make myself vulnerable in this case? So I said, when we're working together over these weeks. The third is a picture of Riva Lehrer herself, as seen through Zoom. So it's that tension between inside and out. But on the inside, she's not wearing one at all. But it takes a minute, I think, to realize that in that reflection she's wearing a face mask. "In the second one, she's in a liminal space and she's sitting by the window. All these people in masks, all these people being wheeled around in beds that had all these elaborate tents over them.' (Submitted by Riva Lehrer) 'What was just hair raising was that I never saw their faces the whole time. "We wanted to really push the slightly wacky reveals we're all going through," said Lehrer.Īfter completing this three-panel drawing, Riva Lehrer became very sick (not COVID related) and she was hospitalized for nine days. In the first panel, Pearl is in her bedroom, surrounded by dirty laundry. One of the portraits she did was of historian and professor of bioethics at Drexel University, Sharrona Pearl. Pearl studies the cultural history of face transplants and the history of physiognomy - the 19th century pseudoscientific practice of studying facial characteristics to make judgments about someone's character. So I wanted to do a portrait of that, of people, of the intimacy that was mediated by the screen." "The most intimate experiences I was having were through this digital screen. She founded the Disability Visibility Project in 2014, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture. so I was completely incapacitated that way, too," she said.Ī Zoom portrait by Riva Lehrer of Alice Wong, a disability rights activist, writer, media maker, and consultant, based in San Francisco, California.
"First of all, as a portraitist, feeling just a horrendous lack, but also realizing as a disabled person that because my body is unusual, I've always used my face, my expressions and my beliefs in order to do social judo or whatever martial art would most pertain to throwing someone in a different direction. When the pandemic began, Lehrer said she began experiencing intense "face hunger."
A portrait of intimacy, mediated through a screen What's about to happen to you, if you're safe or not?" she told IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed. "I still sort of have this memory of people constantly bending over me, and those faces are bringing your fate. Lehrer, a portrait artist and author of the memoir Golem Girl, has spina bifida, a condition where the spine and spinal column don't close before birth. "So I think faces and words and voices became the entire texture of the world for me." I didn't come home until I was at least two years old," she said. "It was the effect of growing up in the hospital. Riva Lehrer's fascination with the face began early. The album was also different due to Babyface working with outside producers on roughly half of the album.*Originally published on September 6, 2021. Reid who was the president of Arista at the time of the album's release.įace2Face was a radical departure from his previous works, as the balladeer was focused on more uptempo songs. It was also his first album released on Arista Records, which reunited him with his former songwriting and production partner L.A. It was his first album in five years after 1996's The Day. Face2Face is the fifth studio album from R&B singer, Babyface.
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