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This image was composed with 28 photographs of the model Neo, each taken from a slightly different angle. These were digitally superimposed on each other. I digitally rotated and re-aligned them using the dots I placed around Neo’s eye. The average image was then computed from this and some color manipulation manually applied to the entire image.

The idea behind this series has to do with exploring ways to show the blurring of some of the boundaries that we often take for granted. The blurring of the boundaries between individual and their environment, between object and subject, between image and reality, fantasy and science. The aspect of this ‘methodology’ that gives me the greatest satisfaction as artist is that the ‘painterly’ effect is not something artificially added to the image, nor a result of the digital medium, but rather literally the product of the recording of the ‘scene’.

This image eventually produced two sets of high-quality hi-resolution Lambda (ISO9002 certified) prints between A2 and A1 in size, in limited editions of 5 prints per set, signed and numbered. These are priced at (ZA)R1000 (about US$ 140), depending on shipping costs and such.

(click the image to see a slightly higher res version)