To represent myself as a machine, I chose to become an elevator. I have my ups and downs in life but usually that depends on how I see life, how I deal with the flow of things. However for my machine, I chose to build the elevator out of doors, and the rubix heart of mine is guarding its entry. There are levels on which I allow people to get to know me, based on how hard or how much effort they place in trying to solve the cryptic code of my heart. Even though I know it is virtually impossible to solve, the effort and time counts for me. This is quite hard to explain, but I'll find a way to make sense of it.
Here are scans of my doors to become my elevator. I used the same technique of printing on newspaper because I absolutely love the effect it created. I also discovered that I could adjust how my scanner would scan the image, i.e. darker, lighter, inverse etc and I tried it out about 4 times, all different styles.
scan 01 - trying out the inverse effect
scan 02 - old fashioned, here the doors looked more like doors
why did I choose to print it on the newspaper, mind games page of The Age?
Well the elevator doors are guarded by my rubix heart, so to play along more with that theme, I chose to coat the doors of my elevator with continuous cryptic problems such as crosswords, sudoku etc.
Creating something for me in photoshop is a slow process. Even though I've got ideas bursting out of my mind, it's hard for me to just create it. So right now, even though I would say I've done a lot so far for my machine, it's still definitely a working process. I'm fussy with my small but still important details to make my machine more meaningful to me.
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