Honey Portraits
Photographer Blake Little from Los Angeles likes to bathe people in honey. And all for the sake of art! The idea of this photo project originated when Little was working on another project — honey was involved in the shooting, and Blake was amazed at how this viscous substance cascades down from the human body. This organic substance seems to change and deform the model's body like amber. Under all this gloss and gloss, the human body seems both liquid and solid, undulating, but at the same time fixed in place. In honey, Blake Little found a metaphor for something eternal, such unconventional means that crystallize and embalm the mortal form.
For this photo project, Little picked up a variety of models aged from 1 year to 83 years.
As a result, the photographer discovered that honey seemed to equalize all the bodies, changing them to such an extent that all models become similar to each other.
The pictures show people of all ages, complexions and nationalities, but they all seem to become the same under this plastic layer of honey.
Here, individuals fade into the background, surrounded by coarse and at the same time sensual impulses.
According to one of the models, at first honey seems cold to the touch, but eventually it becomes warm.
According to Little's visual idea, honey "shells" then liberate the personality, then captivate it again, then amuse, then torment.
The transparency of this substance hides its incredible heaviness, and as a result it becomes both attractive and sinister... like immortality itself.
For the project, all the models undressed, Little photographed them against a dark background, while his assistant poured buckets of honey on them.
"It all started with experimenting with honey," says the photographer.
"At first I started filming how honey pours and drips only on the face or certain parts of the body."
"But after a few shots, I realized that it was necessary to completely cover the human body with this translucent substance."
"Its ever-changing density created effects I had never seen before."
Photo from the Conservation project
Would you risk it for the sake of art?