AUTOSCOPY

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Initially with this project I had no idea what I wanted to do. I thought I was going to have to figure out something crazy and weird to create and that's not usually my approach for projects. However, when I watched the tutorial, I heard Santi say something along the lines of making this project personal. And when I think of personal, I think of my culture.

Sometimes I feel like I live a double life. The image I portray of myself in Saudi Arabia, back home, is different than how it is here in the States. I dress differently, talk differently, and maybe sometimes even act differently. This isn't to say that I change up my typical persona because I am ashamed of it or anything like that. But it is sort of a code switch. I change the way I carry myself to suit the situation and the people I am surrounded. It's just what feels appropriate to me. It's like speaking the native language of the people you are talking to as a sort of ease in communication.

Back home, I absolutely love wearing my headscarf for the cultural feeling it gives me. It makes me feel like I belong there, and I feel beautiful in it. Over here in the States, no one really ever sees me wearing my headscarf, which is why I wanted to create this image. Sometimes I feel as though I blend in a little too much that people begin to forget that I'm not from here. I took this as an opportunity to remind them.

I didn't realize how often I pose the exact same way. It's hard to tell in the image above but I overlayed two selfies right on top of each other and they somehow came out seamless. Here are the original images:


The different percentages:

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I played around with some of the exporting settings and here's some of the examples from that:





















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