Shifting Realms

How does the concept of digital perfection translate when it is retro-engineered back into the physical domain of tactile objects? An AR Instagram face-filter is applied to a mirror, resulting in suggestively flawless glossiness and misshapen reflections. A colourful heatmap becomes a soft, saturated landscape of furry wool. ‘Shifting Realms’ explores the journey from digital to physical allowing us to experience computer-generated visuals from a new perspective. Surreal and immaculate traces remain, faithful to the aesthetics of the digital age although the technology is removed. Translated into new forms and materials, these analogue avatars depend on craft tools and techniques as their interpreters, and human interaction to stimulate their physicality.