This image of a mans face was made up by buttons, safety pins, paper clips and pasta. First I made the head shape by using mostly white buttons. By adding similar colours to white into the mix it gave the head a more textured and toned look. I then added glasses using buttons and safety pins and other facial features such as pasta eyebrows, black button ear rings and a moustache made from all different sizes of black buttons. Finally I added three red paperclips to make a mohawk and bent some white ones to make a bow tie. This idea of making faces from other objects came from Gestalts theory of perception and how the brain can recognise pictures, for example faces, as a whole rather than seeing their individual parts first, the buttons.
Visual Communication 