Not since Michael Jackson’s ‘Black & White’ pop video has morphing captured my attention as much as it has on Lucy and Bart’s site. Move your mouse from the left to the right side of the window area to blend Lucy and Bart together into a hybrid. An intentional metaphor perhaps for the entity that is Lucy and Bart: the artistic collaboration.

LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low – tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement.

Lucy and Bart create thought-provoking images of the subverted and manipulated human form. The results are shocking and intriguing and there’s a wonderful aesthetic achieved by the contrast between the materials they use and the beautifully shot photography and models they use. It’s a strange mix that has me re-evaluating my ideas of Fashion as an art-form; I don’t usually get on with it. I tend to find ‘weird fashion photography’ a bit pretentious and pathetic but Lucy and Bart’s work is experimental, sculptural and so not fake or deceptive in any way. You get the feeling that they are just experimenting and playing with ideas and materials and in the process they are twisting our idea of body-image into something new and strange. They’re also creating some remarkable portraits. I start to see these images as paintings, images Jenny Saville might be able to get her teeth into.

From looking at her blog it looks like Lucy is also experimenting with wearable jewellery with some help from Philips. It’s hard to gauge exactly what the project is about from the limited information on the site but check it out if you have more time to delve. Link.

Check out their blog and then go and subvert your own human form with some elastic bands and fish hooks. Have some fun but don’t go too far for gods sake.