Margaret Thatcher gets the fun-house treatment from Lola Dupré.

Scottish visual artist Lola Dupré distorts images of historical figures and contemporary celebrities to create spectacularly deranged, provocative and funny portraits. Check out her photostream.  (Thanks to Boing Boing.) An excerpt from an interview Dupré did with Hi-Fructose:

“I find humour to be an important aspect of my work, especially when working with an image that is already very well known. The resulting manipulated image has an almost automatic sense of humour to it.

When I work on an image, the result is almost like a circus freak or a clown’s make-up: a distorted version of reality where the reality is still visible. This creates, in my opinion, either humour or horror. I am happy to express and elicit both, as this is a reflection of the reality of our lives and something we should talk about.”