Glitched Selfie, Audacity, 2021
Dimensions: 340 x 697px
The term "glitch" is used to represent many things but is mostly associated with flaws or corruption. However, I wanted the glitches in my picture to represent flaws, change, experimentation over time, especially within myself. I wanted the glitch to portray a more positive meaning and that is why I wanted to create a gradual buildup of different glitches. The effects and positions of these glitches themselves were entirely spontaneous and experimental. I wanted to make myself look glitchy, but remain recognizable. I wanted it to look like I had layers and as if I was creating and adding different layers to myself. Each glitch represents a layer and each one is different. Even if the effect was used more than once, I tampered with the settings so it would not come out the same. I feel that people have a lot of different layers to them and that is not a bad thing. Some of these characteristics are small and some are huge parts of us and I feel that is what makes us unique. I feel that the longer we live and the more we experience in life the more we add to ourselves, adapt, and that contributes to gradual change. We are constantly developing and deciding what parts of us to keep, take away, or add whether we realize it or not. Our personalities, experiences and changes we endure are not always planned.
