For this piece I used an image of my cello, a photo I took of my wonderful cat, a digital drawing I created on photoshop, a photo from outside, and sheet music “Fur Elise” by Beethoven downloaded from IMSLP.org. The initial editing I did was to the main components before adding them to each other. The cello image I started with was heavily cropped and zoomed in for instance. For my cat drawing I loaded the image into Audacity and manipulated the data using “Echo” and “High Pass” giving it vibrant colors and a repetition similar to that of my previous edited spider image. I used various blending modes to create some of the unique color effects and make the colors only visible in the white selection of the high contrast cat image I’d taken. I used the warp tool to create the paper-like effect of the sheet music, giving it a more three dimensional feel to it.

     My non-objective composition could be considered a more accurate representation of me than a physically representational portrait in the way that it gives life and color to many things I love, such as my cats, cello, music, and art. It’s vibrant, interesting, and descriptive in a way that only such an abstract piece can be.

The photograph chosen to glitch was a spider image, significant because of a reminiscent quality that drew from a high school photography class. The destructive manipulation demonstrated the flexibility of perception after going through a strenuous digital forge and the pure colors and shapes that can be therefore extracted from such a piece. The relationship felt to the image deepened and developed into something more expansive and comprehensive after creating these multiple exploratory sides.

The most successful “glitch” was the image that made use of the “echo” and “high pass” Audacity tools. It produced vibrant colors that weren’t expected and yet still retained enough semblance to still call the being a spider.

            For this piece the images of a piranha pencil sharpener, cello Christmas ornament, tree of life bead necklace, and a geometric three-cube conglomerate shape were used. The background image was light filtering through the glass window of a fireplace. The digital collage operates differently than my previously created ID through its more natural rather than mechanical appearance. While there are still hard edges and lines, it has a more free flowing nature to it, as if it's free floating.

            The piece though abstract interpretation illustrates breaking out of a constructed identity. It explores the nature of true freedom as well as the dangers associated with no restraint.

To create a new ID an old library card, college card, old high school card, Utah transit pass, and driver’s license were gathered. The new card differs from the original documents in the way that it has a color scheme of cooler colors from green to purple. The new card uses the repetition of a name and looks at all the different ways that the name could be presented, from hand-written, to computer printed, to the way the first and last names were stacked or not. The ID is a more accurate reflection of who they are in the way that it’s more alive and vibrant, more aesthetically pleasing than other identifications, and more thought out. It uses colors they like, and a photo chosen from a selection of other photos on the other ID cards.