Ed-It-Yourself (2013)
Artist statement
Since megapixel cameras are integrated with mobile devices, everyone is technically capable of documenting his or her everyday life. Those photographs are commonly referred to as snapshots, which unfortunately also imply a lack of artistic intent. In this series, digital manipulation is visibly applied to each photograph to differentiate it from an ordinary snapshot, and more importantly, to introduce another layer of artistic intervention to the seemingly casual practice of taking a snapshot.
Photographing, the act of transposing reality onto a piece of light-sensitive material, is fundamentally a process of manipulation. Framing, juxtaposition, and the decisive moment all become parts of what I consider as mental manipulation, through which a subjective reality can be created in any ordinary snapshot. This series is my attempt to further explore such notion of subjective reality through the interplay between mental and digital manipulation.