Autoscopy

My autoscopy is a reflection of my struggles with my eating disorder and how a good day feels compared to a bad day. On the left is a bad day, trying to understand why the good days feel so different when there might not be anything significantly different in my actions. I liked that it looks like the roses are almost burning on that side, playing with the effects on them was probably my favorite part of this. Santiago didn't like how small I was in the images but part of the message was the distance I feel between my two selves and how that distance makes it harder to understand both sides. I also think for me the roses were more of the message than my actual photo, since they're supposed to be such a romantic thing and too often depression and eating disorders are romanticized when in reality there is nothing romantic about it.

This is the high quality print version.

100% quality JPG

75% quality JPG

50% quality JPG

25% quality JPG

0% quality JPG

As a gif file I played with the color differences, this is 2 colors. I like the imprints it creates. This one and grayscale are my favorites from this.

This is 4 colors,In this you can see the difference in the roses a little better.

This is a black and white version with 4 colors, I like that both versions of me contrast with the background, but that the light version is clear and the dark still blends with the background.

This is my other favorite from playing with GIF settings, this one is grayscale, and I really like the contrast but also the maintenance of the quality with it.