Thursday, 13 May 2010
Sunday, 28 February 2010
Another photocopy experiment
that is exploring the function of the layers, characters and landscapes.
that is exploring the function of the layers, characters and landscapes. 
Previous works have aimed to create disjointed landscapes via digital manipulation to found images of mountain range landscapes. The duplication of layers were used here to create a visual representation of the disjointed nature of what we perceive reality to be. If you could see a weather forecast or a x-ray of the human environment around you it may show it sliced and manipulated by the people that make up your reality. This has potential to relate to Heidegger's 'Earth and World' theory, as we live on the earth but have changed / manipulated it to be 'our human world'. I am however referencing the lack of control the individual has over ones existence or understanding of each moment of reality. As Jenny Holzer says in the 'Truisms' series 'Much was decided before you were born' and so much will be decided in our yet future.
The work i am making on at the moment, that references shamanistic powers, is exploring the moment when you recognise the shift in reality, a moment of clarity or realisation that things are not as you perceived them to be. The shaman character / power to communicate with the spirit world is being used to visualise the crossing from on understanding or reality to another. Prior research looked at gaming and virtual realities, 'Second life' or avatar. Exploring the explicit relationship that we have began to engage with another reality, that does not rely on a physical change only a mental response. Taking this into account i have began to design a character that is visually referencing gaming, that will exist within a virtual environment / landscape.
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