CatForster.com - Installation - Rachael's Makeover

Take an average looking planet and give it a Makeover. Makeover on overdrive, once the realm of Caucasian women in Beverly Hills, has become international. On TV sets across the planet you can watch men and women being morphed: face, body, home, car, career, family, image. Few have the option of having a slew of professionals make them over, but with a little cash (at least $20), anyone can go to the local supermarket, department store, or pharmacy and buy the latest makeup magic or age defying cream. Better yet your local Avon or Mary Kay beauty consultant can hand deliver your makeover potions.

"Rachael's Makeover "

(photo from CrossMediale installation 6/4/06)

"Rachael's Makeover" is installed as a mock 3 mirror vanity. On the right screen, a young woman appears to erase time while on the left an older woman embraces life’s journey and herself as she gently caresses her face, and in the middle there is an abstraction of "lotions and potions". The sound track records a "Mary Kay" session as the young woman gives the older woman a facial and attempts to sell her various wrinkle diminishing products and make-up.

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