I watched John Berger / Ways of Seeing, he talked about the invention of the camera and how it has changed our perspective when it comes to viewing traditional art which had been made for a gallery, and through technology advances, reproductions of famous art have been made accessible to more people through taking pictures of them for us to see on our screens in a new setting, not in front of us, not physical.
This inspired me to find an image of the Mona Lisa, by Leonardo Da Vinci, 1504, take a picture of it on my computer screen using my camera, transfer the copy on my laptop, then take a picture of the copy, and so on,
there is no real original as the first image I copied from was a reproduction, which would of had its flaws and could not compare to the original painting. I reproduced the image until it's original qualities had been lost.
the image becomes very abstract, and turns into block colors of black, yellow and white.
I am pleased with outcome of this and would be interesting to keep reproducing the image to see what happens and if the image would completely fade away
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