Empathy through distance
Giclee print on sintra board and augmented reality objects - Edition 1/1, 420x594cm
Exhibited in: SFAD Graduate Exhibition 2023 under the Philippine Women’s University
The Polarized Personas echoes the composition of a portrait series where the subject is at the center of the digital painting and the background is black void with a grid superimposed on top of it which is a metaphor for the lonely digital space that the subject navigates in.
When users scan the QR code, they would be able to see, through augmented reality, a 3D scanned version of the subject surrounded by scaled-up three dimensional texts. When users go near the victim, these disinformation texts disappear but when they increase the distance, the text reappears.
