electronic scars

As i begin a new piece, the old work stops behaving like a finished object and starts behaving like raw material. Its original intention dissolves...
...Digital art, in this sense, evolves the way organisms do—through recombination, mutation, and strange accidents of environment...

Recycling artwork allows meaning to drift in this way. It loosens the authority of the original image. The artist becomes less a creator of objects and more of a curator of mutations...

...control feels like it is beginning to slip further away...the once random eye now becomes a surveillance symbol. The glitch streaks look like corrupted data leaking through reality. Without planning it, the artist has assembled a quiet critique: the city as machine, the machine as watcher, the watcher as malfunction.
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ELECTRONIC SCARS// CCCORUPT FILES