I found the pieces needed for the project. My original idea was to set up a picture that showed a film projector "projecting" on an image of a family with a mirror behind them, reflecting nothing at all. The idea was to demonstrate how contemporary pictures are often associated with memories, but that's all just an illusion. I scrapped the part about the "family", deciding instead to show the illusion of ideal female beauty. The family picture I found was of a family that looked so wholesome, so perfect, that I found it unbearably disgusting and couldn't stand looking at it. The picture did need some level of artificiality, but this was too much. I briefly read the article that the picture came with, said that the family was heavily Christian; that explains much. Now I'm working with a picture of Paris Hilton, the most artificial female celebrity I know of (I have yet to confirm her existence as a human), a picture of a female mannequin, a mirror, a film projector, and an empty room. Unless I can figure out how to flip the mannequin around, I'm going to have to do a mirror within a mirror trick. Also, I have to erase that face, make it more creepy.
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