imperfection

And now, on the doorstep of his first season with the Trojans, he’s not trying to hide his team’s perceived imperfections, either.

Their lumpy shapes feel not like imperfections but visual reminders of the handcrafted nature of their creation, proof that they’ve been lovingly sculpted with the beauty of truth, not the tyranny of realism.

Vekiarides said the public has set itself up for the wave of deepfakes by accepting the widespread use of image manipulation tools, such as the photo editors that virtually airbrush the imperfections from magazine-cover photos.

In a superficial industry, they make a virtue of their imperfections, projecting them as a strength.

“You own your imperfections. They become your assets. You own your vulnerability, you turn it into strength.”