For this piece I decided to try to take “Will you please reproduce for me Josie’s walk?” (Ishiguro 44) and turn it into a piece of visual art. I decided to use a repeating pattern of the common walking man from US intersections for multiple reasons. Firstly I thought that the hard edges of the shape would help to create a repeating and almost mechanical pattern to represent Klara’s status as an artificial person. Secondly I used it because its universally recognized as a symbol related to walking (at least in America) and finally I used it because of its associations with mechanical things, things made by human hands. A tree has never grown a pedestrian crossing sign as a fruit or leaf. For the pattern I was attempting to resemble Escher and his Metamorphoses and also to attempt to show movement. For the color and the fading to white I was trying to show my own personal opinion about replications and the feeling of a replica “lacking something” even if its identical to the original in every way. With each iteration the pattern loses some of the red color and becomes a shadow of its former self, disappearing more and more with each repetition until it disappears and becomes meaningless. I chose red because it’s a nice color and because I associate it with the book (the cover is red).
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