Dreaming While Drowning

DREAMING WHILE DROWNING explores the entangled perceptions of human and machine through the fluid imagery of water. Images are co-perceived and co-produced by the human and the machine and circulate through systems, screens, and automated networks of attention. The project reflects on the conditions of contemporary image-making, where seeing, creating, sensing, and dreaming are distributed across both biological and computational bodies.

Beginning with filmed footage of a river, the work passes through a chain of translations: digital capture, projection, graphite drawing, photographic documentation, and digital reanimation. Each iteration transforms the previous one, generating hybrid images that move between analogue and computational registers. The resulting short loops operate as both metaphorical and material circuits of information flow, creating hypnotic landscapes where the viewer is simultaneously detached and immersed in the world.

Tidal

A meditation on perception, time, and the limits of representation. What we see is always filtered through technology, memory and interpretation. Through the slow accumulation of marks, there emerges not a factual copy of the river but a response to its impermanence.

graphite on paper
56x76cm

The image is treated as a site of mutual dreaming between human and machine, presenting a porous surface where the digital and the organic, the human and algorithmic blend into one another. Data, vision, and gesture are reflected upon each other, circulating between human and machinic perception. In a sense, the process of creating these pieces, mirrors a feedback loop: the image captured by the camera is reinterpreted by hand, digitised again, and animated by translating human gestures on a touchscreen into motion. Sound compositions built from Radio Frequency Interference artifacts and environmental recordings are incorporated in the work, adding another layer of signal and noise, of natural and synthetic sonorities intertwined.