Lightwave, 2020

39 x 59 cm

A flatbed scanner works by shining light onto an object to be scanned and reads the intensity and color of light that is reflected from it, scanning the surface one line at a time. Most commonly used for registration of documents the scanner is a tool characterized by its precision and accuracy.

As part of the process of Lightwave, raw materials were placed on the flatbed surface and dragged along the sensor as it was registering light. As such, when transforming the physical object into its digital representation, the images produced are distorted and warped into obscurity, unrecognizable from their original source.