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The sight of a beautiful
blond lying in the sand, gazing through the lens of a
camera, and taking a picture of a bonnet-wearing Q-tip
playing a miniature piano is not one you see everyday.
"People thought I was mad," artist Madeleine Farley says.
"They kept stopping to ask what I was doing, and I'd
say, 'Please go away. I only have 20 seconds of
sunlight left.'"
Though she may not have made any freinds that day at the
beach, the Brit has been gathering a slew of fans since
she began re-creating indelible images from movies using
Q-tips instead of actors. (That day at the beach, by the
way, she was working on her homage to The Piano.)
"I look at what I do as the equivalent of a musician
covering a version of a favorite song," says the
London-based artist.
Among Farley's creations, which will be shown in Los Angeles
this month after a successful run in London, are more
than 60 images from such movies as Jaws, A
Clockwork Orange, The Silence of the Lambs,
The Usual Suspects, Breakfast at Tiffany's,
Reservoir Dogs, Titanic, and Easy
Rider. Although Farley's work might suggest that she
thinks our cinematic icons are as disposable as cotton
swabs, she insists that's not her message. "I'm not
condemning actors," she says. "I just think they're
more a part of something than the be-all, end-all they're
treated as nowadays." Studio heads handing out
three-picture deals, take note.
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