What is a fabrication, simulation or artificial? Is it a lie, fairy tale, or a falsity? The art of fabrication can be traced to back to ancient times with depictions of humans with god like features. In the present with digital technological advancements we have the tools to make fabrication more believable. I compare my fabrication of a peacock with eyes in the tail feathers to a Greek myth.
The story of the sacred bird; The Peacock
In Greek Mythology the thought that the peacock has eyes its tail feathers comes from a story about Zeus and Hera. Zeus is a Greek god who was the father of gods and men. His wife Hera is a Greek goddess who was responsible for women and marriage. Hera was suspicious of Zeus’s faithfulness and sent her hundred eyed giant named Argus to spy on him and find his trysting places. When the giant discovered Zeus with a maiden Io, Zeus turned her into a white cow to escape. Hera saw through the disguise and requested the cow as a gift for which Zeus could not refuse her. She then sent her giant to watch the cow because even when he slept some of his eyes stayed open. To save his love, Zeus sent Hermes, the messenger of the gods to rescue Io. They devised a plan that all of giants eyes would close if Hermes played his flute. Hermes was able to slay the giant in his sleep and Io was able to escape. When Hera discovered the slain Argus she gathered his eyes and placed them in the tail feathers of her favorite bird the peacock to honor him.
The hardest part of this project was deciding what project to choose. I started with many other ideas but settled on the peacock project. Whenever I see a peacock I always picture human eyes in the tail feathers. Completing this project I was able to make that vision come true. It was a happy accident learning about the Greek myth of the peacock and I think the story goes very will with the project.
This is how I accomplished this project:
1. Isolate the eye by erasing the background
2. Copy the eye
3. Paste the eye onto the peacock image
4. Use free transform to get the eye positioned right
5. Smudge the hard lines of the eye
6. Adjust the color
Source Images:
Peacock
Eyes
Greek Myth
very neat! I loved how you talked about how you came up with what you were doing too...and how the eyeshadow was a great peacock color...it's funny how as women we paint those colors on ourselves but the male peacock gets it naturally, it's kind of unfair, really.
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