artist foca hamm as looks to portraits of the past for inspiration. he takes the paintings of old masters and reworks them digitally with one big twist. the subject faces our veil and. cameras presents them in a way that modern viewers can't so easily ignore. countries or who go there it can break down the hurdle to these works if you just had a humorous aspect which at the same time highlights important features of the image without overwhelming it. by masking hammers aims to unmask he takes elements already present in the works and multiplies them. the idea is to exaggerate visual codes already built into the paintings codes that people at the time would have understood but that viewers today need help decoding. voluminous wigs for instance one stood for great wealth for the hamma satirizes the conventions of past arabs masking the actual faces hopes to refocus the attention. and interest. in the region by removing this individuality the faces and blocking our access to them this. it's almost as if we were standing in front of the painting and holdi