Inigo Manglano-Ovalle is another artist that I am very drawn to. Specifically his series Garden of Delights taken in 1998 because they show human characteristics without a face. He calls them portraits, but they’re really photographic samples of DNA that he color codes and enlarges to show that these are what separate people. Not their outward appearance. By making this work, he is getting rid of what people use to judge and classify people… their skin color, gender, age etc. I was obsessed with this because this body of work is so large, in size and quantity and because it’s so awesome that he thought to strip away what we normally view as a portrait and break it down to our DNA. It’s very conceptual and beautiful and colorful and just awesomesauce. Lately he’s been doing a lot of sculptural work that’s beautiful in its own right, but this particular series stands out to me the most.