Digital Imaging- Who am I? Who are you?

Materials: 27 Rubik's cubes and printed A4 Labels.

"Who am I?, Who are You?" reflects the mind of an elderly person suffering from severe dementia. Each side of the Rubik's Cube is a image of one of their family members. The images have been scrambled together depicting how a person suffering from this condition is not able to recognise or remember their relatives. The cube also resembles the fear that someone suffering Dementia must be going through trying to recognise all the unfamiliar scary faces that are in fact their own family.

"Who am I?, Who are You?" was not the original concept for the Rubik's Cube, initially the cube was going to have images of unsolved mysteries. This changed when I visited my grandmother in a nursing home, whilst i was visiting another family came into visit a patient next door and she did not know who the family was as she had serve dementia. This inspired me to change the concept of the cube to represent the mind of a patient suffering from dementia.

Process- The overall process to get the end result of the finished cube was very time consuming. The first stage involved taking six high resolution still images of family members from a front on angle. The cube was then measured and the dimensions were duplicated in photoshop, the six images were then layered over top of each other and squares were cut out to get the Rubik Cube look. The six images were printed onto A4 Label sheets and guillotined into squares. The next step involved sticking all 486 individual squares onto the Rubik's Cube then I glued the 27 Rubik's cubes together resulting in the final giant cube.

The beginning of the Rubik Cube

Side One of the "Who am I?, Who are you?" Rubiks Cube

Side Two

Side Three

Side Four

Side Five

Side Six

Conceptual image of what Rubik's Cube would look like.

Rubik's Cube Digital Trial

Trial and Errors- Before I finished at my final idea there were many trial and errors through the process. One of my first ideas was to create a canvas by solving Rubik's Cubes to make the face of Kevin Rudd however I discovered this was going to be to time consuming after a few trials.

This was a trial using the Rubik's cube colours on the images. I decided that using colours of the cube took the seriousness of the topic away from the image.