Elusive Italian artist known only as Dito Von Tease has embarked on a
project called Ditology that features eerily familiar portraits of
celebrities on the ordinary human finger. The faces produced on each
solo finger range from the well-known public personality (Steve Jobs)
and political figure (Che Guevara) to the fictional icon (Mr. T) and
religious guru (Dalai Lama). There is no person that is off limits in
this lighthearted, comical series. Every "person" in the presented
portraits is intricately adorned, costumed, and given an appropriate
backdrop.20 Images after the break...
In addition to the ongoing project's humorous nature, the artist behind
the work adds another level of playfulness through his entirely
appropriate chosen name "Dito" that translates as "finger" in Italian,
which would also mean that Ditology translates as Fingerology. What's
perhaps most ironic in all of this is that we often use fingerprints to
identify people, yet Dito Von Tease has managed to retain some anonymity
by only exposing his fingerprints.
