Accomplished stylist Glamma encourages fellow artists to put their best face forward, while Matt Hecht explores the relationship between artifact and sacrifice in this Issue No. 2 of Jayel Aheram’s “Articles.”
Accomplished stylist Glamma encourages fellow artists to put their best face forward, while Matt Hecht explores the relationship between artifact and sacrifice in this Issue No. 2 of Jayel Aheram’s “Articles.”
“I am the product, tattoos and art are my business.”
The media is inundated with a never-ending stream of “B” celebrities pitching the latest diet crazes or look good, feel better products. Gaunt supermodels, plastic celebutantes, Hollywood stars, and even pseudo stars of reality television grace every cover of the tabloids. Simply put, we live in an image-conscious society. We are cautious creatures of habit, something that often causes us to look before we speak. We are judged by how we look and often step out in public “wearing a personality.” What are we without an image to portray? What can we do to become part of the mainstream market known as self-promotion?
“It is in sacrifice—willing, honest, committed sacrifice—that an artistic artifact is born… It is up to the individual, as audience, to seek out artifacts, and for the artist to continue suffering for the sake of them.”
As a student of the classics I have always found myself drawn to the allure of mankind’s past achievements, those efforts and artifacts of “divine inspiration” or royal vanity which so defined much of what we know of ancient Egypt, classical Greece, and the Renaissance. Past artistic achievements which we still maintain define civilizations with systems of aesthetic value that seem far grander in scope than our own societies—with our advanced technology and global economies—can possibly muster.