Trace.v02

This series are self-portraits. How we interact with technology, the traces we leave behind, and how this identifies us —as individuals and as a community of technology users at a specific time in our human history— is what my series TRACE is all about. These images are snapshots of finger-paintings, made with the oil from my fingers’ skin on the surface of an iPad’s screen. The paintings are later macro photographed, showing in high definition not only the oil smudges but also the dust, hairs, anything else on the surface, and also my own reflection while I photograph them. The photos' original size is 30 x 40 inches and are printed on glass, which adds the viewers' own reflection to the images. Images are accompanied by this poem: SCREENS Black glass when turned off reflections come on, screens, spits, oil, hair, dust, scratches. An abstraction of me data, ADN, skin cells, fingerprints. A portrait of us.