The main things that were taken from reading Hito Steyerl’s article were the fact that art is entirely subjective, and a main factor of that subjection is the age of an artwork. Other factors of a “poor image” are original or found condition, exemplified by Wood Allen's blurry and out of focus works. The class of the work, as in the creator's access to better materials, hence an inherent better quality has been created. Created by the class inequalities of the times, past and present. Poor images are also much more widely available than better images; images found on the internet are poor images as anyone can put anything on the internet regardless of quality. Unlike a photo found in a magazine or on a museum's website.
So, I desperately wanted to incorporate how a different quality of the exact same image could affect how it is perceived, all while mixing in the concept of age. So, for three days a photo was taken at exactly 7:20pm, and each image was aged depending on the age of the image. The images were first printed off (creating a more vulnerable material over the almost invulnerable digital). The first image was aged for three hours, the second for two, and so on. The images were aged using something most people have in their home's, coffee (so as to incorporate that aspect of the growing class conscience). To do this further a free software was used to overlay the images.
I did run into an issue while attempting to use my idea of practical effects as I executed the ageing process incorrectly (meaning the photos disintegrated). So, to implement a resolution, I instead “aged” my photos using the colour change feature on google slides; and messing with the brightness and contrast features to exaggerate the dark and lightness of the photos mimicking an aged black and white photo. The photos were then overlaid in a fashion which would show the ones underneath it.
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