In a secondary response to ideas of how we see and experiences images, that I brought forward in my last post, I began to look at people rather than space. This time I was responding too the title; 35 People You Won’t Believe Actually Exist. I touched on the idea that this work was starting to play with a sense of post-modern irony but I feel that this series is firmly rooted within the comic. Again I made use of the ‘content aware’ feature to turn these 35 people who I may or may not exist into 35 people who never existed. In some of the images the figures have completely disappeared, yet in others we see this faint trace of their existence, as if what they were up to was so preposterous that it could never really be forgotten.
On top of the series of images, I also created a GIF animation that showed these images in a quick succession. I had two original reasons for creating this the animation, the first being to hide some of the imperfections in the removal of the figures. Which kind of of played on ideas of trickery of images. Secondly I wanted to try to recreate that fast paced bombardment of viral images we see on our screens in current times. As we watch the animations were constantly catching up on the abundance of images and left a little on the back foot not very aware of what it is were experiencing. Perhaps in some way the audience existence starts to be questioned in this profuse repetition of imagery.
