Lies, Lies, Lies
Mythomania: an excessive or abnormal propensity for lying and exaggerating
or/ pseudologica fantastica
I watched Pamela Meyer’s talk on TED: ‘How to spot a liar’ – http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/pamela_meyer_how_to_spot_a_liar.html
which led me to considering documenting a conversation as a transcript, and including body language and other lie leakage in brackets for instance.
Michael Shermer’s TED talk: ‘the pattern behind self deception’,
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/michael_shermer_the_pattern_behind_self_deception.htmlI
discussed the patterns behind self deception and showed images used by Susan Blackmore’s ESP tests, whereby scrambled images are perceived by the viewer to contain a picture of something. More so if an outline is included. I’ve begun this line of enquirey by abstracting a photo to the point of remoteness. Perhaps it is worthy to look at how something can be reproduced and twisted to an end point.
I came to the realisation that alot of my recent work falls under the theme of lies: deception, untruths and falsehood. I could have a body of work so to speak.
I also found that every year in a country pub in Cumbria, a competition is staged to find the World’s Biggest Liar. http://www.santonbridgeinn.com/liar/
So lying can be a performative act and even woven into local culture.
I had been short on finding base material but rediscovered a pack of handwritten postcards boughts from a charity shop years ago. I’m looking forward to reading through them again to see what I can find.
