Discussion

When transcending the world involves capturing an image of it and reinterpreting it before the masses, man must turn to art. The performing arts are essentially the way we have found to transport the great stories of the world over time and space, making use of our communicative faculties as homo sapiens sapiens.

Technique

Multiple style transfer layers and Deep Dream layers applied to the same template and overlapping them with different contrasts and opacities.

From the artist

The model in the picture is an old friend who chose to study film and television production. Although we don’t talk to each other very much, we get along very well and whenever we can meet we talk about infinity of topics without any discomfort. He pointed out to me that, as humans, our only real way of transcending is in the image that others have of us.

Telling stories with movies and capturing an emotional footprint in people have as a common factor that they can preserve a memory for much longer than the time of an average life. The world is a mix of unexpected events in real time and projections of past memories that we refuse to let die.

Models and references

Models

  • Mateo Herrera