I am painting with a photorealistic approach malfunctions and side-effects from the media world, often using corduroy and other structures to translate the digital character into paintings. My work is an eerily familiar reflection of our real life experience in our media saturated world and I want to reveal that it is a fake world, only existing behind a screen, full of clutter and noise and easy to manipulate. By painting these malfunctions I want to create an area of conflict of the digital world and the traditional medium of painting.

 

Many of my work are influenced by digital distorted satellite signals, which involves a mix of abstract and realistic elements. While it is quite disturbing to have malfunctions when watching TV - as a still image it intensifies a visual experiment and reinforces emotional expressions. The beauty of abstraction, shapes and colours I saw on defective TV challenged me to translate this into painting.

 

My work raises questions not just about digital art but also about the digital world in itself. The combination of old and new, the contradiction of subject and message, and most of all the demonstration that our digital world can question its own foundations. My version of digital art is not shaped by the potentialities of what can be achieved with the latest technology but by how that technology is affecting those who view my work.