Senior Thesis Project
To celebrate the scary beauty of chaos and harness the strange paradox of my ADD, I use layering and iteration throughout my work. Layering imagery creates a blurred sense of reality. Visual complexity creates depth, mystery, allegory, metaphor, reality and fantasy. The forces of chaos and distraction can be overwhelming. But I want my work to also reveal their fascinating beauty.
“Iterative Distortion” (below) is a projected loop of black and white animations created using recursive image processing. It began with my curiosity about distorting an image, then trying to distort it back to its original form. Using macros in photoshop, I repeated this process. The starting images each make a decaying journey. Each of the eighteen clips in the video is the result of between 500 and 2500 frames of recursive processing.
