So I was asked to contribute to the next show at the gallery I'm doing an internship at, topic "Secret Service" as the first part of a series of shows under the comprehensive theme "post-democracy".
After some research I decided to go for a series of 5 portraits of the so-called Cambridge Five, a double agent spy ring during the WWII period. They had quite some freakish stuff going on, one of them having been on his way to being head of the MI6 while also being on a first-name-basis with Stalin, and another one being the British representative on the American-British-Canadian council on the sharing of atomic secrets at the peak of his western career.
Here are the first two, more interesting ones, as the first had the most interesting career and the second never being confirmed, thus allowing for some trickery :).
To see the intended effect, get red foil or glasses or look through just the red side of those old 3D-glasses.
Still not sure about how much I should enforce consistency. Philby looks nicer if the head isn't as saturated as Cairncross', but for Cairncross it is necessary for the blurred second identity to take effect, while Philby stays the same all along. Erm, I'll let you know what becomes of it, need to get it done today :)
Cheers guys, sorry that you don't get to hear much from me anymore. I cannot even tell the exact reason, but the Internet thing doesn't work for me anymore like it used to for some reason.
edit: the others are basically done, though the colors still need matching, the portraits cleaning and the type some order (not happy with McLean especially). There's also less happening when switching the images unfortunately, but I wanted to do the whole series nonetheless.
