Some highlights from year three of 'things you can look at with your eyes', an everyday project in which I create one piece of artwork each day on my instagram account. In year three, I did a sort of recapitulation of just about everything I had done previously, and I also crossed the milestone of 1,000 consecutive daily posts. I've described each section of year 3 with the ideas I wanted to play with in each medium for #thingsyoucanlookatwithyoureyes. Enjoy!
Starting with double exposures in which I overlay nature photography onto portraits I had taken, I wanted to explore the idea of matching the emotion of a facial expression with accompanying nature photography.
I have also always been fascinated with the concept of taking a portrait of a beautiful person, destroying that image using various methods (raw data manipulation in programs like Audacity and Adobe Audition, creative coding with Processing) to the point where it has been corrupted beyond recognition, and then building that back up again to the point where it recaptures its lost beauty.
Having just bought my friend Kyu Tae's old DJI Phantom 4 in the last year, I then moved onto doing some aerial nature photography. It truly is astounding what one can capture from the air, as it offers a completely fresh perspective on things, and has expanded my repertoire for photography by a large margin.
The idea of a long-exposure has always been an appealing one to me. Leaving the shutter open while streams of photons cascade upon the sensor in ways you can't possibly predict almost always yields fascinating results. For this little tangent, I experimented with steel wool photography in which I placed steel wool inside of a metal whisk attached to a dog leash, ignited the steel wool while opening my shutter, and saw what came.
Next up was some experimentation in mixed-reality using photos I had taken, 3D geometry made in Cinema 4D, and compositing them in Photoshop and After Effects.
To finish out year three, I returned briefly to glitch art of portraits of various famous historical figures in addition to portraits taken by my friend Arthur. Once again exploring the idea that if one destroys a beautiful thing, what is required to make it beautiful again?
