BAD LAND Part IIII

Will the real Slim Shady please stand up sang the rapper known to his estranged mother as Marshall Bruce Mathers III but better known to the rest of us as Eminem That the Philadelphiabased artist Alex Da Corte was attracted to the earlynoughties icon is perhaps unsurprising given Da Cortes longheld interest in artifice and pop culture masking and makeup After a friend noted a passing resemblance Da Corte started to embody the persona of the musician not least bleaching his hair in the hope that by taking on these outward signifiers he might better understand a figure whose politics Da Corte profoundly disagreed with