The Scheherazade Project features a series of AbEx collages created entirely from National Geographic periodicals. Each collage is composed of one magazine, deconstructed and pieced back together in a densely detailed, mosaic-like memoryscape capturing my subconscious thoughts during creation. Various documentation practices are conducted alongside this collage series, including in-progress photography of the ever-changing canvas and archival scans of each corresponding magazine. These photos are then filtered through custom-built, AI-based computer vision software programs, analyzing the subtle changes in composition and comparing it to the archival scans, providing quantitative insight on my Ab-Ex-inspired creative process. These statistics will be organized into digital data visual models, including maps and time-lapse video projections as supporting material for the collaged canvases. In addition, alternative source information related to the National Geographic articles will be distributed via visual data models co-created with AI, such as interactive timelines and "fake" website newsfeeds. By sharing visual-based research, rather than word-based, this project presents a visual recontextualization of colonial perspectives, offering new ways to look at history.
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