Carved Magazines Reveal Green & Somewhat Creepy Portraits

If it's true that we wear an entirely different "mask" in public than we do when we're with our family and close personal friends, then it appears that artist Nate Page has come up with the perfect way to capture this phenomenon.

His hand-carved Vogue cover is both creepy and metaphorical since it serves as both an usual form of eco-art and a visually striking reminder that there's a lot more below the surface than meets the eye.

Page combines drawing, strategic carving and assemblage to create his deeply textural works which definitely leap off of the cover and assault your subconscious with major heebeejeeby factor.

His canvas -- plentiful fashion magazines, the perfect medium to explore our culture's obsession with image.

Besides coming up with a truly original example of artistic expression and technique, Page's transformation of a typical icon of consumer vanity/excess into one that leans to the green is really very clever and definitely very cool.

Who knows if he intended to dig into the philosophical underbelly of our human psyche with the pieces above, or if he just spotted a pile of his sister's old magazines and said, "I'm a little bored...you mind if I carve these up?"

Either way, I think that his cutting edge efforts are literally and figuratively exactly what green art is all about.