DEFACE PROJECT

About Deface Project

Deface Project is a collaborative photo project started by artists Jerry Bedor Phillips and

Cayla B. Mims in response to immediate changes the COVID-19 pandemic caused in the world.

This project began  as a way of recording the unintended results of a "new normality" - one where every day life revolves around the  necessity for personal protective equipment in public and private spaces.

The immediate need for face masks as a simple preventative measure to help curb the spread of the virus has resulted in a large number of these PPE (both disposable and reusable) left behind on community streets, parking lots, landscaping and in public interior spaces. These remnants were captured in photographs taken with mobile devices during the artists' daily routine.