Final Images

Do these two people look familiar? In some ways yes and in other ways no? 
The two people that occupy the frames don't actually exist in reality. They are in fact computer generated avatars, the end result of what's formed when several faces combine into one. 
After exploring this concept in detail, I've learnt just how incredibly naive the human eye really is. It fascinates me to think that someone unaware of this would simply mistake these two images for being standard portraits of individuals, without a backwards glance. Everything you see resembles all the representations of the human face and it's because of that reason your vision is challenged, you automatically assume   that the "people" live and breath and sat in front of the camera exactly how you see them now. The truth is that neither exist in the physical world, their creation was developed by imagination and technology. 


I think the naturalness of these images is down to the minimal manipulation process I carried out. By keeping a small fraction of the original image the still intact, I disguised and replaced the most prominent identifiable features with others from my collection. I want to make clear that there was no specific reason on the selection that determined what parts of each person I incorporated, it was honestly a matter of recognising the most striking asset that stood out for me.  


When you think about it theoretically, analyzing a face is something we all fundamentally do when we meet someone for the first time. Before we can acknowledge anything else about them. That's what I find quite powerful about the face, as it's usually  insignificant crevices and promontories that define one person from the other, its how we know each other.  


Obviously my work could filter into many issues that have currently been introduced to the world. In terms of science for instance, parents can now determine what genes their unborn child will inherit and the controversy that surrounds this designer baby issue. Shouldn't we let nature take its course? I myself feel that I've played God just by tampering with a few facial elements. Our appearance is naturally determined by the looks and genetics we inherit from our parents. So you could argue that the images also portray a mixture of generations which dramatically widens the overall combination.