Listen Up!

Listen Up! uses the language and color of  shredded, modern advertising posters to create a layered, social commentary on the marginalized, dispossessed, beautiful, famous, and anonymous through composition, color and juxtaposition. 

This surrealistic image of a white woman with pink lipstick on a torn advertising poster is torn down the middle, leaving her without eyes and showing a green background with the back of a head in a ponytail. The image reflects anonymity.
A layered series of torn advertising posters on an urban construction wall create a sculptural effect, a totem of mixed races and genders and scales. The center is a Black male and a White woman's hand. One eye, one nose, two heads. "Get the Look"
A shredded double portrait of a young white woman with long blond hair looking sad. Her duplicate image is hanging losing over the same image providing a "split personality" or schizophrenic meaning to this photo. Woeful. Forlorn. Sad. Shattered
This image features a segment from a wall of posters and a locked door with a Master lock. The poster is of the side of a Black Man's head, with only one ear showing next to the lock. The highlights on the ear are in blue, reflecting the layered image.
A smiling Asian woman on a shredded advertising poster is seen in double as the first layer of the poster is ripped to reveal an identical one beneath it. One eye is missing, and her face is not aligned, making the portrait surreal and disconcerting,
Two mask-like faces emerge from ripped advertising posters on a dark green wooden background. An African-American woman and a White Woman. Only the mouth and nose remain of the black woman. Only one blue eye and part of the lip and nose of the White woman

This surrealistic image of a white woman with pink lipstick on a torn advertising poster is torn down the middle, leaving her without eyes and showing a green background with the back of a head in a ponytail. The image reflects anonymity. A layered series of torn advertising posters on an urban construction wall create a sculptural effect, a totem of mixed races and genders and scales. The center is a Black male and a White woman's hand. One eye, one nose, two heads. "Get the Look" A shredded double portrait of a young white woman with long blond hair looking sad. Her duplicate image is hanging losing over the same image providing a "split personality" or schizophrenic meaning to this photo. Woeful. Forlorn. Sad. Shattered This image features a segment from a wall of posters and a locked door with a Master lock. The poster is of the side of a Black Man's head, with only one ear showing next to the lock. The highlights on the ear are in blue, reflecting the layered image. A smiling Asian woman on a shredded advertising poster is seen in double as the first layer of the poster is ripped to reveal an identical one beneath it. One eye is missing, and her face is not aligned, making the portrait surreal and disconcerting, Two mask-like faces emerge from ripped advertising posters on a dark green wooden background. An African-American woman and a White Woman. Only the mouth and nose remain of the black woman. Only one blue eye and part of the lip and nose of the White woman
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