Slick, Mall Glamour Portraits 1998
Going out in public fully in disguise to shopping mall portrait places in the greater NYC area in 1998. Early fantastic nobody interventionist performance art. The mall photographer is trained in packaging and stereotyping identities, and believes i am real. He tries to make me look "normal"
In presenting an image/character to an unwitting collaborator, the performance allows for the observer to complete the work of art. The array of humorous identities, full of cringey mistakes and happy accidents in the series make for an interesting prediction of what my work would become 20+ years later on Instagram, a multiplicity and decentralized self of the digital age.
Provenance
Collected 2026-04-28, won at auction on SuperRare.
Minted 2026-04-04, on Ethereum by
Entered the vault 2026-07-17.
Minted 2026-04-04, on Ethereum by
0x09464ad7…01bb.Entered the vault 2026-07-17.
Collection
Mall Glamour Portraits 1998
Archive
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The story
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2026-04-04
Made & minted by davidhenrynobodyjr
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2026-04-04
Passed to davidhenrynobodyjr
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2026-04-27
The auction: 3 bids from 3 collectors
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0x20e084…1368bid · 2026-04-270xa52997…3430bid · 2026-04-270x3297a2…e552placed the winning bid · 2026-04-28
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2026-04-27
Passed to
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2026-04-28
Won at auction on SuperRare by Aaron (along7.eth)
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2026-07-17
Moved into the vault for safekeeping
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2026-07-18
Archived in this gallery — checksum
632773c1f494