Thrift Store Collage

Portraits of pets are, to me, one of the most kitsch and tacky forms of art. Naruto is an anime series that I think has reached that same level of kitsch but in the animation world. It quickly shot to the position of most popular anime and the anime community was oversaturated with the constant image of this blonde spiky haired goofball. My aim of the project was to take a tacky pet portrait and turn the background into a collage of the face of the titular character of Naruto. In doing this I just was trying to present two different forms of kitsch in one.

Performing For The Camera

I was interested in the idea of the internet. What an abstract thing for people to be obsessed with; a gargantuan electronic database of information. The internet has consumed us and those that have yet to be consumed will be consumed. A place to gain knowledge, a place to keep in touch with other people, a place for entertainment, a place to present opinions, a place of love, a place of hate, the internet. I wanted to visually represent the consumption of a life that the internet can achieve via low quality webcam footage and even lower quality effects and resolution.