Ever notice how all the faces are blurred in Google Street View exposure ? That happensthanks to a privacy - enable robot . But it ’s not a consummate robot . The Google Street View robot not only obscure the faces of humans but also of statues , despite the fact that statues have no notion of privacy . Makes you think , does n’t it ?
Prolific French illustrator Marion Balac surely believes so . In a new work send for “ Anonymous Gods , ” the artist collects Google Street View image that include statue of gods and their blurred out face . One ’s the Sphinx outside the Luxor hotel in Las Vegas . Another is the monument to St. Francis in Caninde , Brazil . There ’s even a gargantuan Buddha on the side of a nondescript road in what seems to be China . So many god . So few face .
What does it have in mind ? It mean whatever you want it to mean . One one hand , it ’s certainly a financial statement of how automating our canonic right , like the right hand to privacy , is elusive . On the other hand , it’syet another exampleof Google ’s creepy Street View cameras being creepy . Inevitably , it ’s a funny little photo serial publication featuring some pretty telling — albeit anon. — statue of ancient gods . [ Marion Balac ]
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