FASHION ARTIST AMIE DICKE

Amie Dicke graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Dutch-born artist. After graduating Amie Dicke traveled to New York and hoped to develop her art career, and perhaps begin a new life for herself. In New York Dicke has not many friends in there, loneliness that led her to feel closer to the familiar faces of Kate, Gisele, and Lily, who graced every billboard and bus stop.In a city, the ubiquity of supermodels occasionally comes in handy.

From then on, Dicke blanketed herself with fashion magazine, trans fixed by the eternal covenants of beauty. And at the same time she was deconstructing those pages with surgeon-like precision. ''While looking at the glossy pictures...... I started to draw black lines on the faces and bodies of the women using a pen. By adding flowing lines of black ink, I covered the original colours and other compositional elements. After that I took a knife and removed the space between the lines—the fashion, the jewelry, and parts of their faces and bodies.''Dicke recalls. This is the technique that she began applying to all of her icons. She coloured in and sliced up all but a few elements—usually leaving the model's hair and upper lip, occasionally a pair of stilettos, or the nipples of a nude. What remained was skeletal, almost diaphanous, revealing not only a metaphorical void, but a network of very real negative spaces. Beside ''sliced up'', Dicke likes to put something on her page, like powder and joss stick. Also on Paris Vogue cover of December 2005, she pinned nails on Kate.

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