The photographs for Umbrellas were taken
from the second floor of a municipal building adjacent to
the supermarket. The diagonal of the pavement divides up the
scene from top left to bottom right. The dynamics of the picture
are based on three factors: the passers-by with their umbrellas
which appear at regular intervals; the traffic on the street
merging into a continuous fade; the flag waving away in an
evolving collage of multiple images.
During calm conditions, a single person with umbrella appears
at a time. An increase in traffic noise increases the number
of people present.
If the spectators clap, people with umbrellas pop up like
mushrooms and fill the pavement, before they gradually disappear.
The system chooses images of people by theme. Each person
is classified by attributes such as darkness or lightness,
colourfulness or drabness, presence of red or blue, facing
forwards or backwards, whether they are carrying an umbrella
or not - if one is lucky, one gets to see all the red umbrellas
together, or (as in the bottom picture) see, exclusively
people without umbrellas.
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