new idea off of old idea

welp.  as promised from the last post…i basically changed my idea.  although i did like the concept of what i was going to do with the “see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil” theme and the presidents, etc. i drifted away from it once i started just applying my images of ideas into photoshop and playing around.  a few happy accidents later, i arrived here:

aesthetically, i am really enjoying where this is going.  conceptually i have decided to morph two presidents: abraham lincoln and george w. bush.  i normally do not create political art because i feel i have no business talking politics anyway.  but i am combining 2 presidencies of “good” and “bad” as seen by the american public, although the lincoln presidency wasn’t really all good times either.  so at the moment i am working on getting the images combined and the combination outcome will hopefully be somewhat grotesque and extreme.  this final result will be purely driven by aesthetics judged by myself.  i mean no disrespect to either figure by any manipulation…but i am going for an odd image to end with.  on either side of the face will be memorable images from both presidencies-good and bad.  i  have a feeling i will be calling this “good cop, bad cop” or something trite like that.