What’s in your heart?

// February 14th, 2012 // featured // Paper Boat Creative

To celebrate the season of hearts, we would like to feature a new series of images photographed by Emma Innocenti, in collaboration with highly skilled makeup and prosthetics artist, Beatriz Lopez.

They worked together to create a series of photographs of what we might find in our hearts.  If you notice, the model is all the same, just made up so differently in each shot.

In the first image, we have her looking cold and serene, but with a heavy heart of gold.  The second image shows charred interiors from trash and food, while the last shows an interior as cuddly soft  and cute as a puppy.

Emma wanted to show how we can so easily alter our appearance based on the deeper values we hold within.  It’s nothing new to any of us, of course our thoughts and personality will manifest physically, from our makeup to our language, posture and facial expressions.  But to be able to superimpose an actual chest cut open with things pouring out is a new way of seeing this well known truth.

Beatriz Lopez created the hearts using a concoxion of wax, foundation and various resin to give us the texture of broken skin. Gory but cute at the same time.  She spent days scorching the items inside, and finding all the right textures and items for each layout.

The next time you look at yourself in the mirror, try to picture what Emma and Bea might have put inside your heart.