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"Novel" flickers between the masks we wear in society. The girls go through an introspective journey in a quarantine, accompanied by their phones and devices. They use frontal cameras and gossip to find themselves and augment their reality.
Novel is a confession of thoughts I'd been arriving towards after years of watching and filming my family members gossip. Talking about the small little things in life but also about thoughts they could never even tell their partners. Using gossip I wanted the girls to digest their thoughts but also to become aware of themselves. The face filters became a Hellenistic portrayal of how the verbal can become non-verbal. And what type of masks we wear depending on whom we are with. Creating these characters resolved my thoughts but also made me see myself in a third-person view. Which then translated into the video as the selfie mount that the girls wear. It elongated them and augmented their reality.
