Subject to Change
Hyperreality and the Godpixel
Photography is my chosen medium of investigation. It is a medium that is distinctly different from the others: it is the encapsulation of the singular instance- the creation of the ‘still’. Subject to Change challenges this finite imposition.
The process began with two portraits of the same subject, separated by time. Every shared detail- from a single hair to a pore in the skin, was meticulously mapped by hand from one image to the other, a painstaking process that took months to complete.
Using traditional software taken from the film industry, the two images were interpolated- morphed into each other frame-by-frame. The original portraits were then removed from the sequence. What remains, what is revealed, are not photographs, but something else entirely: a constructed hyperreality. At the core of this transition lies a unique frame: the point where the images converge. This is the moment of superposition- the birth of the Godpixel.
These are my first iterations of Metaversal Portraits.
No longer is the human hand required to manipulate reality or distort ‘truth’. These images were ‘created’ in 2018, pre text-to-image AI models such as Midjourney, Imagen, Parti, NUWA-Infinity, Stable Diffusion and DALL-E. Subject to Change is the sequel to my first 1992 digital project dis.
What you are seeing is a composition derived from two portraits taken at different moments. From these portraits an interpolated sequence was created bridging the two images. The original portraits were removed. What remains never previously existed. What you see is not reality… it is hyperreality. The gold mesh is the moment of superposition when the two images collide creating the Godpixel.
Subject To Change is a collection of 14 works each comprising +10 second 8K digital videos (NFTs), 58mp Godpixel NFTs, signed Limited Edition Godpixel prints and morph lenticular prints.
Subjects: Juliette Binoche, Björk, David Bowie, Nick Cave, Daniel Craig, Richard E. Grant, Gunther Von Hagens, John Hurt, Eddie Izzard, Simon McBurney, Gary Oldman and Ai Weiwei.