2024.08

Visual Art

Tattered Objects and Digital Moments

Found artifacts from abandoned places contained in frosted polycarbonate vessels — phone-to-object relationships with AR models of the places where objects were found.

Physical vessels, digital traces

Found objects, polycarbonate panels, and metal frames and augmented reality objects, Dimension varies

Exhibited in: The MacArthur House under the Anakbanwa Residency Program, Dagupan, Pangasinan, PH

Tattered Objects and Digital Moments is a series that contemplates the relationship of the physical and the digital. This phone-to-object relationship is simulated by containing found artifacts sourced around abandoned places in the Fourth District of Pangasinan inside a polycarbonate vessel where the object is obscured.

Like the phone screen, the frosted container hides the actual object behind its striations and pixels leaving only insinuations and traces of it. If the digital is inevitable, how can we enslave it to create new experiences?