9: Immortality

How do you show your vision of immortality in the form of an image with no more than about 24 hours in which to create one's concept - including time to sleep, work, shop and actually produce the effect? After discarding a number of small ideas I rather jumped in with possibly the most well known attempt at immortality - Egyptian pharoahs. What appealed is the opportunity to dress up and take an outdoor shot - well, a balcony shot. I thought the early morning sky combined with flash would give me the closest I could come to the right light. I was able to take advantage of my psoriasis skin condition, as one would not expect to survive 4000 years without some deterioration.

The next step was to question what would happen if one survived - and the answer would be a media blitz. I decided to give the concept a twist here and produce a newspaper article (using Word with final edits in Microsoft Paint and in Gimp), as this would give me a large photo format and the unreality of one of those newspapers that are not above producing fake news. Best of all was the opportunity to create a terribly hammy set of front page headlines with no comeback from the language fascists.