AURORA
THE DAWN SPRITE OF METAHUMANITY
In 1982 the artist Nancy Burson made the seminal post-media work Three Major Races. The process by which she obtained this haunting face - morphing - is now commonplace, played out most visibly in popular culture, but also across language itself. In 2002, to "morph" is accepted as a global verb, in 1982 it was as alien as the subject of her portrait.