Pulsing

Pulsing is an attempt to give sanguine life to the digital self. The piece alternates between a desaturated image of me with bleach in my hair, implying disguise and impersonation for the online world, and the same image divided into smaller colorful segments reminiscent of The Matrix’s references to computer coding.

The transition between both images is intended to mimic the body’s pulsing and throbbing between the painstaking efforts to form an appearance in the material realm and the ease of color saturation in the digital, thereby giving tactile existence to the resulting digital image.