For several years now I've been making these Cubist collage portraits, I call them composites. These are constructed by digitally layering and combining dozens of close-up photos of a single person. Here's a timelapse video of a recent effort. The process itself is meditative, which is one reason I enjoy making them. As I layer on the new angles and various crops of shots, I see unexpected mixtures of emotion and form in the subject's face. Soon the person in the image becomes a kind of product of the equation generated by the range of thoughts expressed during the time the images were captured. The most extreme emotions are tempered by calm, but I think, I hope, the kinetic and emotional energy of the person is highlighted in the finished image. For timelapse videos like this, I can kind of worry less about the finished image and just take a trip though the possibilities. Viewers are encouraged to freeze frame anywhere along the process to find their favorite frames. Music by The Pen Name. Similar videos I've made: Interactive Composite in Flash. Demon-stration is another timelapse. Snowcha is a timelapse with model commentary. Del.icio.us tags: composite, surrealism, cubism, timelapse, video, juxtaposition Technorati tags: composite, surrealism, cubism, timelapse, video, juxtaposition
