Ideas

Ideally, from a technical standpoint, i'd like to continue to work with the above project which i started on over the summer. I experimented with using mask interpolation as animation as i did in the previous class, but this time i integrated a 3D environment. I ran into a few problems but luckily i seem to have figured some of them out after the Vanishing Point assignment.

i'm not interested in trying to continue this specific video, but i want to use the some of the techniques and find an easier way to make the environment while maintaining my aesthetic.


Conceptually, i'm interested in masking and concealing. Do we hide our true selves behind facades or are those masks very much a part of our true identity. We masquerade to protect our vulnerabilities, or our pasts. Sometimes, we deceive others to shy away or perhaps even join them. These guises are as fragile as the idea of identity in itself, yet we still choose to conceal ourselves.

Jacques Derrida theorizes that our identities are not self contained, but constructed from language, culture, and history, and are therefore composites of experience and circumstance. I submit that masking, by proxy, is that manifested identity constructed totally outside of circumstance shaped by the other.