So I'm reading Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead for the third or fourth time now. I'm a pretty big Rand fan (we're just going to pretend that the movie version of Atlas Shrugged never happened, btw...), and usually what I'm reading has an affect on whatever art I'm creating at the moment. So (whether I like it or not...) some of Rand's novel is seeping into my work-in-progress photography book.

I'm sure not a lot of people are going to share the same opinions that I do on Rand. But because I've read all of her novels so many times, I think that I notice some things that most people don't if they've only read half of one of her books. So this time around of reading Rand's second most popular book has gotten me thinking about her re-occuring theme of the capabilities of man. In this particular book, her main character Howard Roark is an architect. So a lot of the book deals with him creating new and unique buildings instead of mixing together what has already been done before. Not that this is hard for him, it's mostly hard for others to accept his weird new buildings. A big part of the book also is about him having a mind of his own, and him using his intellect to create something new (just happens to be buildings). He really reminds me of Michelangelo's David, for that reason and a few others. So that got me looking at my theme for my book in a slightly new way. What I had intended to do was just to blend technology with the human body to show that technology is a huge part of our everyday lives. But now that I'm starting to think about it, that seems like I'm saying that technology is the master of the human instead of the human as the master of the technology... I'd rather not portray that, frankly. So instead, I want to do a series of photographs showing the progression of technology and how that stemmed from man so that man is the master instead of the technology. All are to be portraits, but each one will have an element blended into or replacing a facial feature. Any feedback?