Extended SMAS (Superficial Musculo-Aponeurotic System) Facelift

Oil On Canvas

45cm x 35cm

2011

 

This picture was the result of Yeo’s first experience watching a live operation. One of a portraitist’s main aims is to interpret a subject’s character through their expressions. When people change the mechanics of the face through surgery, this process becomes more difficult and it starts to affect their non-verbal communication.

 

Texts: 

John Quin - Prime Cuts

Interview with Mariella Frostrup

Clover Stroud - A Savage Beauty