Signal Decay

This work does not attempt to portray David Bowie. It uses him. Bowie becomes a structural device—a fracture line through identity. The face is split, not into two, but into unstable layers of self: constructed, performed, and eroded. The vertical incision acts as both a wound and interface, suggesting a liminality between states rather than a division.

The halftone system references mass reproduction and public persona. The commodified image, while the gestural ruptures interrupt control, exposing something less resolved beneath. One eye remains human, searching and the other dissolves into a mediated version of self. Bowie’s legacy extends beyond his music, rooted in his ability to continuously dismantle and reconstruct identity. This work engages this process in which identity is no longer fixed, but rather negotiated, fractured, and reassembled under pressure. The work inhabits a threshold between presence and disappearance, between the face we offer to the world and the one that refuses to be fixed.