Nancy Burson©

 

 

In 1982 the artist Nancy Burson made the seminal post-media work Three Major Races.

The process she used to obtain this haunting face - morphing - is now commonplace, played out most visibly in popular culture, but also across language itself.

In 2002 to morph is a global verb and the morph is accepted as a global subject, but in 1982 the word 'morph' was as alien as the subject of Burson's portrait.


 

 

MORPHOLOGY


CULTURE


DESIRE


TECHNOLOGY


AURORA


CONCEPT


GRAHAM BUDGETT