Beauty Lost and Found

“A Question of Beauty” Exhibited in the “The Feminine Mystique” at the Jersey City Museum, 2007-2008.
“Fallout: Beauty Lost and Found”, “A Question of Beauty” and “Time Finite” examine the nature of beauty — or more appropriately, the loss of beauty and its resurrection using my hair loss.
Hair means many things to many people — a symbol for beauty and sexuality; a keepsake secreted into a locket or jewelry or pressed into a diary or Bible.
Conversely, hair is repulsive on a dinner plate or plugging the shower drain. These exhibits, however, focus on the beauty of hair and what that personally implies.
In 2005, I began precisely recording my daily hair loss. I collected it from the shower and brush. I manipulated it into a doodle, which was placed in a ziplock bag and dated.
The act that began as a documentation of the loss of beauty and sexuality, and all that it implies, became my way of recapturing beauty. It became a transformation, an ultimate resurrection of loss through the collection and transformation of my loss.
My daily hair Loss from 2006, Giclee prints of photo of me (taken by my father William Reingold) on french rag paper stitched to canvas, 120″wx 40″h
My daily hair loss from 2006 (365 daily doodles). Photo of me taken by my father. Printed giclee (from Blk&wh negative) on Arches hot press watercolor paper.
Graphite. Thread used to hand stitch doodles to paper, and hand stitched to canvas.
My daily hair loss from 2006 (365 daily doodles). Photo of me taken by my father. Printed giclee (from Blk&wh negative) on Arches hot press watercolor paper. Graphite.
Thread used to hand stitch doodles to paper, and hand stitched to canvas.
Photo (taken by my father) on 300lb cotton rag Hahnemulen watercolor paper, my hair loss doodles from April 2011, thread, and graphite. 38.25 x 16.25 inches
Photo (taken by my father) on 300lb cotton rag Hahnemulen watercolor paper, my hair loss doodles from April 2011, thread, and graphite. 38.25 x 16.25 inches
Photo (taken by my father) on 300lb cotton rag Hahnemulen watercolor paper, my hair loss doodles from April 2011, thread, and graphite. 38.25 x 16.25 inches
Hair doodles (28 days January 2010), petri dishes, beeswax, carnauba wax and damar varnish, paper, string, graphite, glass shelves. 126 x 5 x 5 inches
Hair doodles (28 days January 2010), petri dishes, beeswax, carnauba wax and damar varnish, paper, string, graphite, glass shelves. 126 x 5 x 5 inches
Hair doodles (28 days January 2010), petri dishes, beeswax, carnauba wax and damar varnish, paper, string, graphite, glass shelves. 126 x 5 x 5 inches
Hair doodles (28 days January 2010), petri dishes, beeswax, carnauba wax and damar varnish, paper, string, graphite, glass shelves. 126 x 5 x 5 inches
Hair doodles (28 days January 2010), petri dishes, beeswax, carnauba wax and damar varnish, paper, string, graphite, glass shelves. 126 x 5 x 5 inches