Ashkan Hovarvar, a known mixed media artist who works and lives in The Netherlands has been busy since his first public release for the disturbingly awesome mixed media works titled ‘Faces’. A collages series Ashkan Hovarvar made in 2009, by using parts and pieces of distorted human parts, it manipulates the human face, depicting an undeniable, unavoidable beauty by accepting the darker sides of human ‘nature’. The saying goes ‘beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, It occurs in places you least expect’, however the beauty that people accept nowadays is widely held but fixed and oversimplified idea of what is advertised by many, and it deformed the identity of a person who is overlooked by what people mainly call ‘beauty’. Hovarvar ‘Faces’ series sums up his search for an identity, and the physical and psychological wounds inflicted on soldiers from war, by using First World War soldiers with facial mutilations, which influence his other works such as Identity Lost and Spaces. Check out his other ‘Faces’ series and his other works on his website.