A wrap-up of all the works from the SFE series I shared on my blog.
What makes up a face? What is a face? Why is a face perceived in the way it is? And what if we perceive it in another way? … These and other notions are explored through the conventionalities of the digital medium.
As an extension to my undergraduate research on Pareidolia in Art (perceiving random patterns as faces), I also explored the varied possibilities of human facial perception. I used my face/personality as a specimen to explore and experiment on facial identity enquiring the fragility and impermanence to perceive and recognize a face-form by manipulating it.
This project sprouted during the jarring period of quarantine as a result of the Pandemic 😷
The isolation diminished all the world around me and that led me to explore more about myself, my appearance, my identity and my character. Throughout the process, I got to know those layers of my persona that I had never felt before.
You can call this a narcissistic view of the 'material self', as I really got obsessed with clicking selfies and showing some self-love in a new way.
These links head to the individual posts
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In terms of this work, I fused my project Pareidolic Visions with the original work SFE-32. This too, like my other works, went intuitively. I stumbled across a textured ink wash brush in Fresco, used it over the preliminary visual and went on exploring its 'texture'…
@accio-prabhs/work--sfe-04-uneasy-or-self-face-experiments
About the very image I use in my ending banner…
@accio-prabhs/sfe-02-pacifier-and-others-or-self-face-experiments
This is a different strand from the 'sleeping line' works consisting of two more variations.
Initially, I had decided to use this for the eyes, as I used it originally for a video. Eventually, ended up putting it on the lips.
@accio-prabhs/sfe---13-through-time-and-more-or-self-face-experiments
A series of superimposed self portraits employing mask as a veil over the persona…
@accio-prabhs/the-moods-or-self-face-experiments
Face...
Identity...
or just another material medium to express?...
@accio-prabhs/new-works-or-self-face-experiments
Eye bogglers and Partial masks 🎭
And, That’s a pack up!
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