On Monday and Wednesday of last week, our group used the capture studio to take our final pictures for our zine. The light it the capture studio totally changed the way that all of the work I had made looked. Not only was it amazing to see the work I had made change character in different colors of light, but also it was incredible to see the work of all of my group come together in dialogue.
I loved seeing the way that light worked through the phone screens rather than being reflected back towards the viewer. The subversion of visibility was really beautiful, and the shadows that these moments of gesture created were so soft, but also so uniform.
In addition to playing with the spacing and configuration of the 40 cross sections of a conversation, I decided to re-photograph the pieces of plastic that I had cut with the laser cutter to make my embossing. They had become the ‘active’ component in the embossing-the things that you can touch for the sake of touching, but here I wanted to make them untouchable and inert, as well as holy. I thought to do this by putting the apps, in their clean, white perfection, in water.
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