Mat Humphrey's project features 36 cardboard portraits of leading writers, musicians and artists who took their own lives, specifically those who have had a positive effect on the world. Interested in the process of subtraction rather than addition and the transience of cardboard as a material, Humphrey's work is a tribute to the self-destructiveness often associated with creative genius. The work potentially throws into light the flaw in the notion that fame and success are answers to the search for happiness. Each portrait is two foot square, and can be arranged in any shape according to where it will be hung. Preferably as one single block of either six feet by twenty-four feet, or eight feet by sixteen feet.
