Self Portrait: Development of "Attack of Wires"

For these final ideas for the image once the photographs were taken, I drew several mindmaps and drafted some ideas.

These are some very rough sketches that show some ideas for Mr Welldone's final image. 

I wanted to play around with the idea that Mr Welldone lives in a dark world, but much to his liking and personal interest. He scoffs at the idea of people being afraid of what is difficult to understand and either choose to be completely ignorant or to blindly follow along as per the "norm", both concepts of humankind in which Mr Welldone despises.

However, Mr Welldone does have genuine fears himself; this is not a fear or phobia of humanity in which he would lead others to believe, but more of the way humanity has built it self as an arrogant, self-indulgent and self-pitying race. 

One of his many revelations to this is the progression of technology.

This is from my own phobias that I have used to further flesh out Mr Welldone's character. At first Mr Welldone (and myself) were intruiged with the idea of technology furthering the attributes of a social and constructive race; it's the similar kind of intrigue when watching how ants build and work together to create their own eco-system. However, humans have become much more ambiguous and greedy than ants (as if that were even possible!) and to make matters worse, they are much BIGGER than ants. This poses a problem that Mr Welldone predicted would be a destructive and consuming force...and he was correct.

These mind maps show rough ideas on how Mr Welldone envisions this idea of technology on a subconscious level from Mr Welldone's own mind. For this I choose the image in which Mr Welldone was asleep under a willow tree, his safe haven. In the ideas for the image I wanted Mr Welldone to show even though he wished to be safe, he is constantly aware of human technology looming over him. So the obvious choice to show this was to imply the use of 'digital surveillance'. Mr Welldone sees a diminishing gap between actual physical contact and the constant overuse of technology, causing humankind to be more 'connective' but also more separated for other humans in a physical sense and separating them further from reality. Because of this, humans have become more and more like aliens of the time he's been alive for. With this idea, I now had a concept for a 'nightmare creature' to stalk Mr Welldone's mind: The Observer (or " Techno-Hydra").