Much like Andy Warhol did with his various works of art, I made four separate selfies by merely changing the colors and saturation of the original in the top left. He was a fan of merely reimagining the same image in many different ways and making them into new pieces of art. Also, Andy Warhol had an affinity for turning unnoticed things into works of art. I am not famous and, thus, am quite unnoticed. So, I turned myself into a work of art. Each one of me is now just as different and just as rare as any work of art.
Also, my selfies connect to the readings of Finkelstein's The Art of Self-Invention by connecting to the idea presented in chapter 4 about advertising. The exact quote is, "Now a range of subtle techniques makes advertising the vehicle of mass persuasion and subtextual engagement," (Finkelstein, 147). Andy Warhol's works show that off. He made slight changes to previous works to make people want to buy them. Other industries do the same thing today. With collectable card games, what is the difference between a regular card and a prismic version of the card? Nothing, really, except that one looks different and is harder to come by. People who collect the cards look high and low for it, though. People who loved Warhol's work payed a lot of money just to have a blue Marilyn Monroe instead of a pink one. My selfie shows the exact same idea by making four versions of the exact same selfie. The original will be sought after, the redder one will be sought after, the brighter one will be sought after and the grey one will be sough after. I'd make four times the profit for essentially the same work of art. Thus, subtle techniques in persuasion.
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