From Unfolding the Digital Self series. The focus is on the compound experience of the physical and the virtual. As every physical encounter is personal, reflected by the individual self, so the virtual being is moderated by the digital self. However, the body responds in the same ways to physical sensations, and to virtually simulated ones. I am fragmented while still keeping it together. I live both here and there.

Combining work done by hand with digital fabrication, I am exploring the specific ways in which the virtual “me” would be dissolved and reorganized. By looking at the self, I am mapping its connections to everything else. I’m fascinated to materialize the invisible, to experience and suggest a broader reality.

Life Lines is a visual “diary” series. #2018 was the first piece, and #2020 is a continuation in slightly different context. Each Life Lines print consists of all images, taken with a smartphone camera in one year. The photos are dissolved in lines of the colours which they contained.

The work is a demolition of the concrete, where context gets lost and only colour remains. That makes the images universal, free from a specific situation. In the same time these photos reflect on parts of self perception created in the digital realm. They contribute to the establishment of the digital self.

Kindly supported by Art Promotion Center Finland.

Material: lenticular print Size: 120 x 180 cm Year: 2019 - 2021