The word glitch refers to an unpredictable irregularity in a system—digital and analogue alike. Explore the creative possibilities of glitch.
I wanted to continue on from the first assessment with the theme of creating simple works to contrast against the complexity of genetics and genetic glitches. I wanted to look at the text book side of it by conducting experiments that were very simple looking in their design to counteract the complexity of studying genetics. Originally I wanted to do one piece looking at the literal genetics of the body in Karyotype form, but then changed my idea to incorporate genetics, and a glitch in seperate pieces.
The definition of a glitch shows the academic side of this topic, and by laying it out in the format of a dictionary definition shows human kinds reliability on words formed my mankind to define things that are natural and the reason that we are all here.
The double-helix strand of DNA is the most basic understanding of genetics that most humans have. From early primary school, the most simple way of explaining how we, humans, came to be, shown by this swirl that resembles a ladder that has been twisted.
For my final piece I basket weaved together two portraits that I drew. I wanted to create the stereotypical look of a glitch, characterised my millions of little boxes containing part of the image in places where you can still read what the whole image is but its not complete.
If I were to further this I would want to do more work with portrait weaving. Doing a whole series of woven works intrigues me and I would love to further it by making really detailed painted and drawn portraits, and then discovering more intricate ways of weaving them together.