This portrait of Frankie Abralind (me!) is an homage to Andy Warhol's 1966 portrait of one of my heroes, Marcel Duchamp. I saw the original at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum, in the Duchamp retrospective exhibit. It was mesmerizing.

 

Warhol created it by setting Duchamp in front of a camera on a tripod, then letting a 100-foot roll of black & white 16mm film (about three minutes) run completely out. For shows, he presented the resulting video at the slowed-down rate of 16 fps. In it, Duchamp sits quietly, drinking from a glass of water and taking drags from a cigar.

 

I've approximated those conditions by slowing a ~3 minute video to 70% speed. In it, I sit quietly, drinking from a glass of water and taking nibbles from a cigaraisin.

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Special thanks to my fabulous intern, Cherry Sworobuk, for their help with setting it up.