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“It seems that we are in an uncertain period in our history, where things
are disintegrating and falling apart, which is what my work reflects.
At the same time, I see the beauty and hopefulness in the chaos. Although I started this series in 2019, now the concept of ‘movement interrupted’ has taken on an entirely new meaning since COVID-19. By harness- ing the visual effects of data corruption for aesthetic purposes, I am allowing spontaneous glitches to cre- ate the images that I photograph off of a TV screen. I intentionally wait to shoot for the moment when the screen becomes ‘pixelated’ and fragmented due to uneven reception. The images appear for just a split second on my TV screen, and become deconstructed, stretching the colors, lines, and shapes into a new format, from recognizable to almost abstract. The little squares that arbitrarily appear on the screen represent to me how our technological world interacts with, and effects people and the environment itself.”
sherry Karver