Kanye West’s Attempts at Sincerity
I set out to create a visual metaphor for my essay topic, depicting Kanye West’s career timeline as a linear representation of the 4 stages of simulacra, explained by Jean Beaudrillard, with his actions in the later stages being a representation of the 4th stage of Simulacra; ‘Has no basis in reality’. To display this, I created a compilation of clips, starting in 2004, that show his change in persona over the years. I fed this compilation through analogue mediums 7 times in order to create degraded and abstracted visuals from the compilation.
