hey kaylor fam, gather round, won’t you?
so for the last week or so, me and @79-swiftie (and her co-worker) have been mulling over something and we just can’t keep it to ourselves any more. thought we might share.
she and i started talking about one of the central reoccurring and fleshed out themes of the rep era: illusion. and… fragments. i think these two themes—motifs, if you will—need no introduction, but just to share a few key visual points
the recent elle magazine photoshoot (because of photo limit i’ll just post one but you know there were a few)
this thing kimby posted one time
actually there are a few taymoji that relate to this but in the interest of time and because i have maxed out in photos, i’ll save it for another time.
and then also, taylor goes sending us this enigma of faces hidden in gemstones 💎 many pieces and facets.
those are all basically fragment-related but today, i would like to talk about optical illusion and this picture:
has this photo ever looked… unsettling, to you? something, uncanny? persay?
well, @79-swiftie and her coworker, who had recently gotten their hands on a copy of the rep era magazines, pored over them and noticed that this above photo has a curious focus placed on it. the cover of Volume 2 spends a lot of space featuring the number 72. on page 72 of the magazine?
that photo. it also happens to be the photo cut up and rearranged on the CD.
so our two heroes noticed this, thought about some of the above fragment motifs, and decided to get crafty. specifically, they photocopied the CD image and reconstructed it like a puzzle. and in the process of putting the pieces together, they had a sort of epiphany.
midway, they saw something:
tell me what you see in this photo. i’ll wait.
here’s a hint…try putting your hand over the left side of the photo. yes.
now scroll back up and look at the full pic again.
we see Karlie. specifically, her eyes, her cheekbone, forehead area… but moreover, it suddenly felt like her.
naturally 😂 we have spent the past week looking for a perfect match (because while murders have been sentenced for life on solely circumstantial evidence, kaylors have to be 113% correct for it to be worth consideration) and with some uncanny valley results. interestingly, her face matches up much easier if you mirror the photo and use the right side of her face/left side of the photo flipped. give it a try! it’s suuuuper eerie.
i’m not sure if the goal is to find an existent photo (they could have easily taken a private photo of karlie specifically for use), but, in our quest, the other day i felt particularly teased by karlie’s latest Klossy video and i thought i’d share the result because frankly it took me out of commission just now.
simple really. you just uh,
no this isn’t the exact photo.
i assume it’s an unsolvable for us. frankly, i don’t think taylor wanted it an undeniable discoverable thing. like many other elements of the rep tour, people who want to see it will. others can choose not to. that’s the power of our illusionist.
and like, think about this for a second…
what if karlie’s face has been there, incorporated into the iconic rep era pic of taylor, all this time? because give it a try. it is *entirely possible* and i am shook to the core.
