THE TED CRUZ PHOTOSHOP PROJECT: DAY 2[Ted Cruz’s face is very...

THE TED CRUZ PHOTOSHOP PROJECT: DAY 2

[Ted Cruz’s face is very interesting to me. I’ve decided to do an apolitical photoshop to it once a day, every
weekday, from now until I don’t do this anymore. I will post the
pictures, as well as what I learned about myself in the process, here
exclusively on tumblr as well as via the US Postal Service for anyone who has signed up to my snail mail newsletter.]

Hundreds of people wrote letters to me wondering if I was going to keep doing this project even though Ted Cruz dropped out of the race literally hours after I’d posted the first installment. I’ll admit I was frustrated and was ready to halt the project delete my Tumblr burn the world to the ground and go home early, but the tremendous outpouring of support from all over this great planet of ours overwhelmed me, and I decided that the project had to continue. Art is too big to be stopped.

Today I made Ted Cruz’s mouth much smaller than the one nature had given him. It’s still his mouth, you understand, but smaller. Christina, my post supervisor, said “Is that his mouth?” I didn’t like what I did at first, because I realized the small mouth made his eyes and ears look bigger by comparison, almost cartoonishly so, and I didn’t like that he was starting to look like a Disney character. I started seeing Ted Cruz as the human form of a Disney character that, due to a misunderstood witch’s spell, had been previously turned into a mouse.

I do not like thinking of Ted Cruz this way.

To offset the cuteness that was settling in as a result of his small mouth and naturally silly ears, I went in and delicately removed the light from Ted Cruz’s eyes. This, I felt, downplayed any sort of whimsy that wanted to creep in. Ted Cruz without light in his eyes is, to me, the truest form of Ted Cruz I’ve seen anywhere.

What Did I Learn Doing This:

In Art, there is God. You need to know that you’re ready for that power, for what you can do with that power and for what having that power will do to you.

Did This Make Me Like Ted Cruz More:

Not particularly, no. It did not.