Inverted Paintings

My work lives between the digital and the physical, where images drift from screen to surface and back again. Beginning with fragments pulled from the vast, ever-shifting internet, I alter them through digital manipulation—warping colour, distorting form—until they teeter on the edge of recognition. Translated into paint, they become unfamiliar echoes of their source.

The viewer completes the work by using their phone’s inverted camera, revealing the image’s hidden logic—its true, digital self. In this act, the painting flickers between worlds, existing only in a moment, in a place, in a device. It resists permanence and reproduction, asking what it means for something to be real in an age of infinite replication.