Corpse Flower - Forever Unfolding - 2022

Corpse Flower
“…images at a certain point have started crossing the screen… and materialising within reality.. (but) they haven’t
crossed the screen without transformation, in fact, they became profoundly transformed and bruised and damaged
by crossing the screen… the reality we live in consists of the wreckage of images…” (Steyerl, 2013, 1:05)

These words from Hito became my point of departure for this body of work and the process created for this creative
exploration…

I moved forward with some questions: How many image loops can I create by moving an object through from the
material to the digital; from a three dimensional plane to a two dimensional plane and back again?

And, how is a ‘thing’, an ‘object’, transformed as it moves through from the virtual to the material?
It is my aim, that this process created a series of loops, rather than a singular output or outcome; creating a fluid
folding of data, where the ‘thing’ is input, looped, output, looped and input again… the intent of these image loops
has been to understand and experiment with what is lost and what is gained (Steyerl, 2013) as an object moves
through these loops…

As a reference to Donna Harway – My ‘self’ is becoming with this botanical being… Connected and networked …
Together enmeshed in gestures of material and virtual folding – connecting, reconstituting and composting in a loop of
sympoesis. (Haraway, 2016, 97)
And in each of these process folds, gestures and loops there are decisions… Mine and there’s… We are both and all,
implicated in the outcomes. We are in a loop of becoming: human, botanical and non…
In this process design I hope to create a loop of becoming for the human, botanical and technological being…