lately, i’ve been contemplating ideas of replication, copies, doppelgangers, iterations, clones, etc. as a possible starting point for my final project in ICM.  i’m currently looking into exploring this as both a physical and visual interface, having an individual act as the subject for the piece.

the main premise behind this piece so far is to have a person’s shadow projected onto a wall or the floor and be frozen in a moment in a time.  the shadow, which shares a certain set of characteristics with the original, is also its on entity, but in nature is still dependent on the original.  so, what if the shadow was imbued with its own set of individual properties? giving birth to your own shadow in a sense through a process of multiplication (perhaps mitosis) and becoming something else entirely.

an example of shadow manipulation

another example of shadow manipulation

there could be several ideas for pushing this concept further:

(1) manipulate people’s shadows into different ways that artists and designers have viewed objects in real life.  cubism, modernism, bauhaus, etc. type filters

(2) placing the shadows in different architectural type situations, on the sides of windows, walking on ceilings upside down

(3) placing the shadow in immediate hyper-tensioned situations that the viewer is currently not in, movie scenes, dinner party scenes, etc.

(4) imbuing the shadow with a set of physical characteristics not shared by the owner-  making your shadow fatter, shorter, taller, bigger feet, wide hips, etc.

(5) having your shadow multiply (clones) and forming patterns or form to become another object, pattern, etc.