Prosthetic Tag

Community: Echo SeireeniGallery / 14 images Prosthetic artist and MUA Echo Seireeni has built a world of transformations that feels almost mythic. “I see make-up as a filter – a kind of protective mask between the model and the camera,” she says. It’s a mask that’s taken many forms across the faces of underground icons: Bladee made ghostly with airbrushed veins and gunmetal shadows, a latex-soft bunny crafted for Fontaines DC, and Eartheater crowned with horns and splashed in Pepto Bismol pink beneath the desert sun. She champions a philosophy of make-up as an extension of self, whether literally through prosthetics or conceptually. “I’ve come to a relatively stable conclusion that make-up has always been a tool to mediate the relationship between...