For my Xerox project, I looked into an art style that's always interested me, it's called Futurism!
With the advent of photography becoming more present and advanced, the idea of art being used for the representation of the real world started becoming less practical.
Because of this, artists started thinking about how they could use their art to represent ideas and images that couldn't be represented by photography.
At the time there were no film cameras, and an artist named Giacomo Balla wanted to
represent motion in his pieces, and he created this now famous painting of a woman walking down the street with her dog!
represent motion in his pieces, and he created this now famous painting of a woman walking down the street with her dog!
Isn't it great? So for my project, using black and white copies of my body parts, I obviously thought of this painting and this time of artI decided to make a similar piece based on the ideas of motion being represented by still images.so I scanned multiples of all of my limbs and face turning gradually, which was very awkward to do in front of people in the lab because I had to keep sticking my head into the scanner and finding ways to prop up the scanner's lid with various props, like my shoe!but I took the 40 or so copies, cut them up and glued them to strips of mat board, connecting them with a gold pin that made my strips of body parts rotate around the center of the piece.this allowed for the final product moveable, and the strips of body parts easy to arrange in a gradual order that made me look like i was waking up!Here are some pictures of how it turned out: 
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