How has Man Ray influenced or inspired you as an artist?

I fell in love with Man Ray’s photography when I was about 19. There is a modernity to his images that seemed so contemporary to me. He had an incredible sense of lighting, and his compositions have a strangeness and edginess to them that really spoke to me. As a make-up artist, I studied Man Ray’s models very carefully: the shape of a lip, the graphic eyeliner, the placement of the rouge on the cheek. The incredible thing about Man Ray is how his style still seems new, fresh, and sharp—even today.