For my final experiment, I identified the patterns on rocks. The long tracts of the weathering rocks exhibit resistance and strength by adding character to the formation of the beach headlands. However, the existence of those patterns becomes negligible in the presence of the vast landscape. We get so consumed by the waves and the sand at the beach, that the existence of these distinct rocks does not occur to us.
I photographed a friend between the seamless landscape of the beach, with the intention of capturing the rhythmic layers of the rocks in the backdrop. The procession of these patterns makes a statement, through not only its materiality but also the amount of accumulation it goes through over the year. With metaphorical, reference to each layer representing some interval of geological time, of the sedimentary structure, the photograph acts as a medium to encapsulate the essence of the same.
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I further, created three variations to the photography by adding pixilation at different intensities. How, stones with repeating layers tend to be formed over the course of months, seasons and years, our perception of a photograph can be understood as a cognitive representation of the scene reflected in the image. Every square shaped pixel that is created, virtually divides the whole photograph into an algorithm guided by color that derives associations to the original image.