eyemachine project/selfportrait-averages

The production process of «project» lets me generate another – rather absurd – artwork on the topic of time: the «selfportrait-average» picture series.
In this series I calculate the visual monthly – or yearly – average of the selfportraits used in «project». As an example: the daily selfportraits of the month January 2002 are blended over each other as layers with 3% transparency each (100% divided by the 31 days of January 2002 is approximately 3%: for every day an equivalent «blending-strength»). Hence a mathematically calculated visual average ot the way I looked in January 2002 is computed.
Because the Iris has already been centered in the production process of «project» the area around the eyes is «in focus» – while the areas further away from the eyes turn unsharp. The iridescent gray in the background is the result of chaos in colour-mixture of all the different backgrounds from every single day.
Through statistical computation of pixelinformation the principle of similarity/affinity is realized in the utmost possible way: the pictures belong to a group of absolute similitude – and still every single month of my selfportrait-averages is distinguishably different and discernable from the other in expression and structure.
The image – technically originating from photography – is transformed into a stunning stilistical resemblance to dutch portrait-painting of the 17th-century – simply by this process of crossfading.