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PhotographyPic of the Day Urs Fischer
Pic of the Day: Speaking with Tongues
1:03 pm Tuesday Dec 1, 2009 by Caroline Stanley

When we first saw this series by photographer Luke Williams, we couldn’t help but think of Urs Fischer’s motion-activated “Noisette.” We’ll let Williams explain what his tongues mean: “Multilingual was a silly idea that I came up with on a whim, one afternoon. I had adopted an old stack of multi-colored Mohawk paper samples earlier that week, and had no idea what I was going to end up doing with them. This was the first thing I thought of, so I went with it: I wonder what it would look like if you separated your tongue from the rest of your face, by sticking it through a sheet of bright Neon Mohawk paper? I gathered a few patient friends, and voila!”

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