Oliver Jeffers dipped paintings

I found this project being undertaken by Oliver Jeffers, where he paints an oil portrait before dipping it into a vat of acrylic paint to hide a portion forever:

Quote from Jeffers: 'I painted the portraits alone in my studio and kept each veiled. Prior to dipping. I never photographed any of the paintings. Therefore, the people present at the time of the performance were the only witnesses to the pre-dipped works. Their testimonies are the sole archives of each portrait’s unobstructed state'

What have I taken from this:

- Like the idea of something being layered up and obscuring the original image

- The thought of re-appropriating and changing an image with one simple act

- I like how the act of the dipping is undertaken with a small audience, as in this case, the original art lives on only within the memories of the people watching, and thus the actual art becomes the story and ideologies attached to the work rather than the work itself