Although I recently had a piece on the art of vanity searching of the motif DAVIDNG, here is an interesting art project that revolved around "Davids" in general.
(From Geist)
In Winnipeg in 1993, Micah Lexier put an ad in the local newspaper looking for males named David. Hundres of people responded, and he asked the first David of each age one to seventy five, to be photographed at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. The result was an exhibition of life size portraits entitled A Portrait of David. Ten years later, Lexier, with the help of the Winnipeg Free Press, located many of the original Davids as possible and asked them to be photographed again. The result was David Then & Now, a series of diptychs in which each original photo was paired with one taken a decade later. The project was presented by Plug In ICA as a series of bus-shelter posters in downtown Winnipeg and in exhibitions at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, TrepanierBaer in Calgary, and Birch Libralato in Toronto.
(Click here to see the project)
Kind of puts the whole senescence thing in perspective...
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