This is a time lapse collage generated of a storefront in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, NYC. The Automated Digital Photo Collage (ADPC) is a small program I wrote. The ADPC compares each one to a baseline image and adds what it detects as different into an aggregation, a time lapse-collage.

The contemporary global digital culture, with its ephemeral images on glowing screens, has fractured previous realities. Our sense of self, community and cultural identity are increasingly dependent on the digital presentations we create. This uneasy relationship we sense with the ephemeral nature of bits and our dependence on evolving hardware to retrieve this growing portion of ourselves is a new tension our culture is experiencing. The ADPC visualizes the passage of time through an additive process that overwrites and alters the legibility of the image to simultaneously hold impressions of many moments and obscure details just like human memory.