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The system is showing its seams (2023)

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Body as Residue, Landscape as Interface (2023)

Stuck in a black void that isn’t empty but overdetermined. The absence of an interface still marks its edges. Above, a floating landscape, not a place but an image of one, a screen-memory flattened into a surface with no depth.

The figure below reads as a crash report in human form. A presence that refuses full absorption into its environment, caught between opacity and transparency, between materiality and digital residue. The world is misaligned, the rendering pipeline has collapsed, and now there’s a person stuck inside.

The body always lags behind the image, struggling to sync with a landscape that has already moved on. The background is a misplaced asset in a collapsing spatial hierarchy.

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Overgrowing Technology: A Ghost in the Archive (2023)

The garden is already a database. A controlled environment where images of nature are stored, indexed, made retrievable. Here, technology documents growth, organizes it into folders, timestamps it, makes it searchable. What was once wild is now archived, its unruliness flattened into a gallery of stills.

At the center stands a figure that refuses resolution. It's not entirely absent, but not fully legible either. It lingers where it shouldn’t, as if technology, in its attempt to hold everything, has produced a residue, a ghost.

It’s the system showing its seams. The checkerboard of transparency, the layering of files, the collapse of foreground and background—the machine is struggling to contain what cannot be fully processed.

Overgrowing technology. Or maybe, technology overgrowing itself. The archive is haunted not by memory, but by its own limits.

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A Ghost in the Codec (2023)

This video is a failed rendering process, where a ghost becomes trapped in a sequence of misinterpreted frames and incomplete transparency data. The checkerboard pattern, holding space for empty spaces, overlays the subject instead of functioning as a background, creating a break in the compositing process.

The interpretational dance mimics a frame delay or a misalignment in temporal data. The vaporware mountains move laterally in chromatic aberration or RGB misalignment errors, a side effect of how digital files handle color channels during degradation.

shot on iPhone and edited in Premiere Pro