'HomEage': Fin DAC celebrates his creative influences in new half-and-half portrait series

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Fin DAC is set to unveil his latest show, featuring half-and-half portraits that blend his unique style with the iconic aesthetics of influential artists like Yayoi Kusama, Pablo Picasso and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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00:00It's essentially an artwork of mine split down the middle with the second half repainted

00:25in the style of another artist. So it looks like two different versions or two different

00:30personalities of the same character. A lot of artists just kind of pretend that they've

00:35come up with everything themselves but nobody does that anymore. Everybody takes from somewhere.

00:40It's just how, let's just say how well you can hide it, where the influences come from

00:46but with this one there's no hiding. It's just all out there and it's meant to celebrate

00:51those influences as well as those artists.

01:07It started super late. I didn't start until I was 40. I'd come out of the back of a fairly

01:14stressful relationship and end to the relationship and I essentially just wanted something to

01:20take my mind off the stuff that I was going through at the time and so I thought okay

01:24well if I start to draw or paint that potentially will give me that kind of almost like meditation

01:31or therapy and it's true. It just silences the world completely.

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