These are the eighth graders cut in half and collaged on top of each other to make about 35 two faces. The text is from Frederich Nietzsche "Birth of Tragedy." I don't know if you've ever read this book but its a very dense, straight forward text on differences between Apollonian and Dionysian ways of thought i.e. art and music. He also makes the argument that real tragedy- Greek tragedy has died.
I chose the text for these collages because of the proliferation of the "tragic teenager" in contemporary narratives. These petty tropes may be the few outlets for tragic, combustible characters. They also have that revealing quality, their unrelenting self doubt allows them to be perfect mediums for really fatal dialogues like the quote from Silenus.



These are the Seniors with masquerade faces. The Quote is from Prometheus of Aeschylus, taken from the same book. I liked this quote because the sense of self important aloofness might actually mimic the same naivete tragic teens portray, but it's actually about Prometheus.