AI Photographs - Legacy (portraits of the greats)

Legacy (The Greats) is a an ongoing project that explores the conventions of portraiture, the gaze and photography's long association with death. AI re-animation of old photographs of ancestors allows the creation of moving images that seem to resurrect the dead with human gestures and expressions that destabalise time and our sense of reality. In the tradition of 'memento mori, the portraits in Legacy reimagine the relationship of subject and viewer into a sublime timeless dream. "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make any sense." Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi – 13th century