The Cubists were concerned with seeing 'around' objects - they wanted to show the viewer as much as they could - every angle, each facet and shadow - all at once. They claimed that their compositions were truer-to-life than the work of their peers - feeling, in compressing and distorting space itself, that they had more faithfully captured three-dimensional entities onto their flat canvases.
Each image in this series is comprised of individual portraits, carefully composited together to form what appears to be a seamless, singular event. Look more closely, however, and various kinds of distortions become apparent. Rules of reality are broken - at least in the sense of linear time and space. And yet, like the cubist paintings, new information can be gleaned from the creation of these 'artificial groups.' Where one set of rules breaks down, another is synthesized. Patterns about human behavior reveal themselves. Other artists, such as Aaron Koblin, have also visualized similar patterns by lacing time and space together.