I took straight photography of LCD screens with glitch noise caused by poor contact in the receiver of digital TV with news reports and dramas. The meaning of the original images was lost as only rotation and cropping were modified to the post-photographed data.
The screen I was offered, with what I actually witnessed being kept under wraps. Like the apophenia effect of perceiving certain patterns in random data, the viewer is driven by a 'desire to read' the abstract image that has lost its object, and projects his or her own senses to generate the image.
When I was delivering photos from the field as a photojournalist, I was constantly accompanied by the feeling that I was somehow lying. I was afraid of the way complex reality was replaced by easy-to-understand information with the highest priority on 'ease of transmission', and the way this information was then perverted and disseminated on a global scale.
Hearsay is essential for humanity to learn and survive as a community, but now that the media environment is being overtaken by photographic images and it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between the fake and the real, our sense of reality and collective experience is undergoing a major transformation.
Both media and individuals filter signals from the sea of noise and weave stories as if connecting constellations. Outside the clean, bright cave, devoid of opposites and noise, another dimension of reality always expands. By paying careful attention to trivial facts, incidents and outliers that cannot be captured by words or everyday perception, the doors leading out of the totalitarian and conspiratorial image space are opened and the sun shines through.
