For this project, I wanted to focus on the breaking of the perceived realities and what the viewer is supposed to see and isn’t supposed to see. A lot of the “hidden files” used charNG and N+7 to distort the text to a point where it was unrecognizable, as if the facade was breaking. The hidden links are meant to be found and show what the author’s intrusive thoughts actually are. I used Otter to speak all the legible text on the pages. I wanted the text to be brief since I didn’t want the reader to get lost in the stories of Pinocchio, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. I also used the anagram generator specifically with Pinnochio’s dummy text to relate it back a bit more as well. For the title of the piece, I used Botnik to come up with “The only thing separating us is the pain of the world”, using the romantic filter. I liked the flowery poetic language it had. For the oblique strategy cards, the first one I used was “In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly”. I took it as I wanted to keep people in the dark, almost keep them confused for a little while so they can piece together the story. The next card was “reverse”, which I used as a way to trek back and look at what I had at certain points, to add more where is needed and take away what wasn’t. The last card was “Is there something missing?” I pulled this card at the end and it was good to look back on everything I’ve done and think about the finer details and find what is really important.
Constantina Tzanides