duotoned lithograph

60cm x 80cm

2008

In avatar the artist has taken the principles of systematic computer recognition software to create portraits from the community of people around him. Photographing the 50 immediate people within his day-to-day and combining them to form a new image.

This technique takes its inspiration from computer recognition software that uses a bank of 50 faces to create any human face in the world. Using a computer software system to analyse the patterns of the face it combines features from its bank of faces to create a new face, an image of the human self through the eyes of a machine. In the process that the artist has gone through, the resulting image is one that has the sign and suggestion of a self through the image of others.