Distorting my Reality further

In my last post I experimented by distorting my surroundings using a reflective stone and since then, I decided that the next stage in my developmental process would be to explore distorting my reality further by defamiliarizing my morning routine instead of my college surroundings. I feel that by exploring this aspect using an app available on Apple's App Store called iBooth would combine the idea of kaleidoscope perception and making the familiar appear unfamiliar by distorting what is familiar to myself as an individual, but completely unfamiliar to a viewer and successfully achieving defamiliarizing whilst combining the aspect of kaleidoscopic perception and removing the automatization of life.

 

For this experiment I downloaded iBooth on the App Store which has a kaleidoscope feature which takes any selected image from your gallery and rearranges the picture into a kaleidoscope arrangement which I found to be quite effective. It allowed you to move and reposition the picture which would in effect create a different appearance dependant upon which section of the picture you were moving.

I decided to take pictures of the following things which occur on a daily basis before i leave to go to college;

• Waking up
• Showering
• Eating Breakfast
• Apply Make up/Fix Hair
• Prepare to leave at 8.30
• Get car keys
• Leave house

The following images are the original images taken in order that they occur;

 

and the following images are the distorted kaleidoscope images which have been manipulated using iBooth and the kaleidoscope feature;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To an outsider, this would appear to be a series of images all taking on a kaleidoscope appearance but the nature of the images would be unclear and unfamiliar as this is only focusing on altered perception through the metaphor of the kaleidoscope through its appearance. The arbitrary patterns and rotational symmetries represent the reawakening of perception by disorganizing and recomposiing what we see through a distorted sense of reality. I feel that some images work better than others and that is purely down to personal perference and I particularly like the idea of a progression to illustrate an ever changing attitute towards our surroundings that may not be recognizable at first glance. I feel that I have expored this idea to an extent that I am happy with but feel unconfident about its potential to progress using photography and feel that certain aspects can be continued into further development such as the shapes and symmetries within the pictures and the idea of a progression.