Diane Bush
Skin Deep, 2011
C-print photograph, bleach
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of the artist, in honor of victims of acid attacks
2017.29.001

By obliterating pictures of politicians with bleach, Diane Bush speaks to other forms of public silencing and erasure, from the censorship that took place during the Iraq war to the defacement of women in acid attacks.

An abstract image composed of wavy vertical lines of various colors. Thin, white streaks stream down across the surface, branching and coming together like raindrops running down a window. Besides these white streaks, the majority of the lines are red or yellow.