Thursday, February 6, 2014

Identity layers commentary

For the identity layers project, I chose to quite literally conform to the name as a conceptual basis; that is to say, I mainly created iterations of a single image. Thus, by adding to the image and making it more dynamic, I was increasing the complexity of its identity, for progression through life entails a process of continuously altering/constructing an identity. In terms of the three alterations of the original "innsmouth" drawing, a situation in which an off-putting/discomfiting evolution of identity is displayed. "Innsmouth altered 3", for instance, is fractured and changed to the point where the original geometry can barely be made out and the colors follow no logic whatsoever. In sum,  the project was an attempt to reflect on the complete dissociation I often feel when considering past selfs and the contexts that engendered them.      

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  1. "for progression through life entails a process of continuously altering/constructing an identity." well put.

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