Influences /// WAYNE MARTIN BELGER BUILDS CAMERAS FROM HIV BLOOD AND HUMAN SKULLS



Time to once again danse macabre by way of self-taught artist Wayne Martin Belger. Belger uses unusual materials (human skulls, HIV-positive blood, bullet shells) to build functional cameras that lend their composition to the work itself.
Wayne Martin Belger is one of the rare two-part artists that create works relying on each other through the synonymity of  the repeated aesthetic.  That is to say, when you look at his cameras, sculptures that represent something painfully graphic and simultaneously beautiful,   you relate to the photographs in a different way. I find it fascinating that his installations show the cameras first, then you see the completed ancient photograph — it was made with this thing?



HIV-POSITIVE BLOOD is used as his red filter, then shot on 4 x 5; Image below.