THEM/US: evolution

...the genesis began innocently enough, with landscapes captured in their pristine, digital glory. Sunsets bled into cerulean skies, forests stood in silent, verdant majesty, and oceans stretched towards horizons sharp and true. These were the raw materials, the building blocks of a project that would soon spiral into the beautifully bizarre...

...the very initial impulse was simple: to tweak, to refine, to perhaps subtly enhance the inherent beauty already present. But the digital realm, with its endless possibilities and tantalizing tools, soon beckoned me down a different path, one paved with distorted pixels and the ghosts of glitched images, shattered and edited back in only better ways...It started subtly, a slight push of the saturation here, a gentle blurring of a line there. Then came the first deliberate distortion, snowballing into a surreal reflection into a fractured mirror of your reality.,,,

the fever dream rages on as you gaze upon the twisted and writhed, mimicking the anxieties that churn beneath the surface of our hyper-connected lives. The internet, that vast and sprawling network of information and misinformation, became both my inspiration and my instrument of subversion. WE HODL THE POWER, THAT IS WHY THEY HOLD US DOWN...