A study of what remains when a record begins to fail — the portrait that thins into grain, the room that holds only the shape of what stood in it.
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The opening pass of a single image through repeated cycles of copying, corruption and reprinting. The room still holds the shape of what stood in it, but the edges have begun to soften — the first information to go.
Archival pigment print from a repeatedly copied digital negative. Unique edition.
A figure crosses the room and the record cannot hold her still. The longer the exposure runs, the less of her remains — a presence registered as movement rather than form, already halfway to gone.
Archival pigment print from a repeatedly copied digital negative. Unique edition.
A sunset read back through a failing screen: the horizon survives only as scanlines, each line a thinner copy of the one before it. The light is still warm, but it arrives in pieces.
Archival pigment print from a repeatedly copied digital negative. Unique edition.
Pedestrians caught on a failing signal — bodies stretched into vertical shadows, the city around them still faintly legible. Everyone in the frame was there; almost none of them made it through.
Archival pigment print from a repeatedly copied digital negative. Unique edition.
Microphones waiting for a voice that has already dissolved into static. The image keeps the furniture of the moment — the podium, the lights, the row of mics — and loses the person it was held for.
Archival pigment print from a repeatedly copied digital negative. Unique edition.
The final pass: the subject is present only as a suggestion, a pale glow smeared into falling streaks of fog. The centre goes last, and the feeling outlives the detail.
Archival pigment print from a repeatedly copied digital negative. Unique edition.