Art. I like it. It's like playing a visual game of telephone. The message is repeated but some things are left out, simplified, changed, or added. It's a different look at something, and to me it reflects well on the original photographs, which are openly credited and the artist even encourages people to appreciate them.
For example, the photograph of Marion Anderson is absolutely breathtaking - even more so after seeing the oversimplified play doh version.
"For my day job writing press releases, I take projects artists haven't spoken about or they have in complex language and I try to translate those ideas in a palatable kind of way; that’s what I’m attempting to do with the original photographs in Play-Doh … you have to try to be a funnel between the artist and the rest of the world. People spend so much time seeing so many images each day but spend so little time on them. What this project does is grab their attention and hopefully leads them to look at the original image. I’m trying to catch people’s attention to have a look at it in the first place.”
