{"id":6843,"date":"2017-09-29T01:58:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T01:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=6843"},"modified":"2020-05-06T22:07:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T22:07:41","slug":"self-portrait-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/?p=6843","title":{"rendered":"Art from Code: Self-Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Me,<\/a>
Me, as seen through a pile of windows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Does my self-portrait capture me? Who knows. I feel like a portrait drawn by another person and a self-portrait are entirely different things. While a portrait by a third party captures your physical appearance, it may not necessarily capture your mental state. A self-portrait, though, is capable of capturing what goes on in the artist’s head. With that in mind, I knew from the start that I wouldn’t be capturing what I see in the mirror.<\/p>\n

So, what am I supposed to be? How do I see myself? How do I put that on a canvas?<\/p>\n

\"Different<\/a>
Different places, different colors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Different<\/a>
Different windows create different versions of “me”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I started with trying to capture an important part of my life – my relationship with technology. I love computers. They enabled pretty much every single opportunity I got in my life. No matter what interest I pursue, I will at some point be looking at a computer screen while doing so. To capture that, I went with the metaphor of an operating system desktop, and some of the apps that I use on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

While the operating system itself is cold – the wallpaper and the windows are using grey and blue colors – the content I make is bright and active.\u00a0The images I make, the code I write, the files that I work with, those are the things that I chose to define me.<\/p>\n

\"Me<\/a>
My face, minus what I saw in the mirror<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I started work on this project, I first created the image behind the windows. My glasses and my headphones. Parts of my face that I can see without having to look in the mirror. By choosing to showcase just these two elements, I wanted to give a sort of a “first person” perspective to the viewer.<\/p>\n

\"Who\"<\/a>
The image does not stay the same.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Between the three different types of windows, and the ability to move them, I spent some time working on implementing them all. The biggest challenge for me ended up trying to balance my desire for this project to always produce a unique result each time it’s opened, while also still maintaining its personality – the colors, and the unique glimpse\u00a0of “me” that each window shows. At the same time, I also tried to offer a degree of interactivity – windows can be dragged and rearranged, to produce a different portrait.<\/p>\n

\"Drag<\/a>
Drag windows to change things<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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