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Depicted People (2001-)

For the purpose of hearing and getting information from witnesses, police officers have been trained to make/ construct portraits of suspect faces on "wanted" posters to show to the public with the aim of asking people 'do you know who this is ?/Do you know where is he/she? '

Living in Japan, in criminal cases, we can see such kinds of portrait in the newspaper.

The style of the portrait is neither well trained nor aesthetic. However, they give us a strong presence, and make a mysteriously realistic impact on us.
It is a 'face of suspect', constructed from a collective viewpoint.
I wanted see another side of them, meaning I wanted see their background.
My will would be transferred into less of a trivial approach:

Visualizing their 'background', I could try to make their sides/heads/faces symbolically, by a direct analogical approach.

I cut the portraits out from the newspaper, as a motif/ tool for my artworks and as a drawing for 'visualizing their 'background' and 'drawing invisible parts'. I try to represent a 'drawing of invisible parts by taking the visible contents'.

On the PC screen, just by selecting, gathering and cutting small parts of the front of their faces/heads/hairs, I faked the back of their heads by just copying and pasting.

The depicted invisible parts were fabricated / invented by the depicted visible parts.