The official description of the assignment can be found here, but I’ll give you a summary:  take images of people (friends, family, celebrities, etc.) and put them into editing software with layer capability, and create a new person with an interesting body (i.e. “exquisite corpse”).

Here is my first run of this assignment.

These are all of my lovely roomies combined into a long person with lots of eyes.  I was obsessed with having everyone’s eyes in the picture, so that everyone would be represented.

I started by Facebook stalking all of my roommates.  Found some nice pictures, and then I put them in photoshop (one canvas with 5 layers).  I went through and adjusted the opacity of each layer, and rearranged until I was pleased.  I felt like this image that I came up with was very linear, and I wanted to try it but make a corpse that had more “movement.”

And this is what I got (try #2):

They are pretty similar, I just wanted to explore a little bit and try to add some dimension.  I thought this assignment was pretty fun.  I liked the idea of getting to make a body with all of the people I live with, and I felt like I could find a metaphor in this assignment, and this metaphor will be my inspiration for this assignment, as follows:

 I love my roomies, but sometimes we are a big, chaotic mess of dirty dishes, dirty carpets, sticky kitchen floors, broken dryers and lights that need new bulbs.  We are rarely all at home at the same time, but we are still a unit (I know, that sounds tacky).  We bake for each other, we do each other’s dishes, we listen to each other, and we care about each other (so sappy, I knowwwwww).  So to me, this is a photo representing the corpse of my house, in human form (if that makes any sense at all).  And by corpse of this house, I mean it’s all of my roommates, and we are a mess and all over the place, but we are still sort of connected.

Assignment worth 4 stars.