I made another image in this style a few days ago (at the time I am preparing this post) and remembered that some people are unable to recognize faces/recognize people from faces alone, which is called Prosopagnosia.

I felt that this fit well with me distorting faces, and so decided to make some glitch art with this concept in mind. I ended up adding the dithering because I felt it made other parts of the picture (the jacket sleeves, the hair, the hands) stand out more.

I really like how this one turned out, and I hope I could do the condition some justice.

I stumbled over 'pixel sorting' and remembered there is a filter in GIMP that gives a similar effect. Played around with it, and looked at glitch art/pixel sorting and the phrase 'losing face' popped into my head, so that was how I got the idea to make this piece.

I then also played around with dithering options and arrived at two versions I really liked, one of which you can see here - the second one will likely be posted in the future.

I think ppl know what it is like to be so embarrased you want to disappear, to mess up in a way that feels like makes you lose a part of your confidence - maybe even your sense of self (in how others perceive us).