Luke Stettner The Effects Of Past Experience (Harry Nilsson), 2011
B/W Inkjet Photographs
10 1/2 x 15 3/4 Inches
It becomes difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside down face, despite the identical changes being obvious in the upright image. As a performer Harry Nilsson prompted feelings of acute tenderness or nostalgia but as a man often found himself plagued by great confusion and emotional unrest. The piece represents these two discrete, but often overlooked, personas.
Artist Luke Stettner used this upside down image from Harry Nilsson's first 1966 album, Spotlight On Nilsson, to make a point about our collective abilities of perception... and about the duality of Nilsson himself. Why is it upside down? Don't flip your computer over to find out, just click here and a pop-up will show you why. Then ponder what it was you were seeing in the first place. We scored this from The Kate Werble Gallery.
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