hard to read as words, and as faces. that may be your intention. but what is the incentive to decipher? what's the payoff.
if displayed opposite a "real" face, e.g., yours or others', there would be the implication that decipherment would yield some insight about the "real" face, or help to understand something you're trying to imply about the inscrutability of the individual. (this comes to mind: "the junk science of emotion-recognition technology," at https://theoutline.com/post/8118/junk-emotion-recognition-technology?zd=1&zi=aosunjzk
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the minimalism of these word-pictures means, probably, that some thought should go into what the letter styles are. why digital? why these typefaces, versus others. what about manual typewriter, enlarged?
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other ideas (with letter-pictures) — bring the letters close together, overlapping (i.e., NOT creating a face). outline, etc etc, to create a jigsaw puzzle lines. lay these down over photographs of faces, do something with them, e.g., distort face. as if radical reconstruction, of a dramatically damaged (or even missing) face.
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am thinking of Giuseppe Arcimboldo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo
this too (the typographic jigsaw puzzle idea) — Bridget Riley, Rajasthan, 2012. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/oct/22/bridget-riley-review-hayward-gallery#img-4
hard to read as words, and as faces.
ReplyDeletethat may be your intention. but what is the incentive to decipher? what's the payoff.
if displayed opposite a "real" face, e.g., yours or others', there would be the implication that decipherment would yield some insight about the "real" face, or help to understand something you're trying to imply about the inscrutability of the individual.
(this comes to mind: "the junk science of emotion-recognition technology," at
https://theoutline.com/post/8118/junk-emotion-recognition-technology?zd=1&zi=aosunjzk
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the minimalism of these word-pictures means, probably, that some thought should go into what the letter styles are. why digital? why these typefaces, versus others.
what about manual typewriter, enlarged?
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other ideas (with letter-pictures) —
bring the letters close together, overlapping (i.e., NOT creating a face). outline, etc etc, to create a jigsaw puzzle lines. lay these down over photographs of faces, do something with them, e.g., distort face. as if radical reconstruction, of a dramatically damaged (or even missing) face.
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am thinking of Giuseppe Arcimboldo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo
p.s.,
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explanation of what we are looking at, and what you are thinking about it?
this too (the typographic jigsaw puzzle idea) —
ReplyDeleteBridget Riley, Rajasthan, 2012.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/oct/22/bridget-riley-review-hayward-gallery#img-4
more, on facial recognition etc
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/EvanSelinger/status/1187811757215105024
interesting and relevant to your project (I believe).