Stem Stem in Electro, 2022

Ink-jet Print on Archival Paper,

Acrylic Varnish

20 x 25 cm

Unique

This body of work consists of screenshots taken from artist-built live simulations—digital environments originally created for separate installations exploring topics such as wildfires and sensor-driven biomes. Unlike later works based on video game worlds, these images are drawn from internally generated virtual systems, offering a more direct visualisation of a constructed logic and digital authorship.

The images are highly abstracted: saturated colours, flat planes, and simplified forms dominate, resembling digital cut-outs or paper collages. Their visual language is more graphic than photoreal, evoking the visual clarity and intentional artificiality of early interface design or speculative landscapes. They reflect a process of fragmentation and selection—of pausing a live system mid-transition and isolating a fleeting composition.

Though the source material stems from simulations designed to respond to live data and environmental conditions, these prints suspend that constant flux. Removed from their generative context, the screenshots become still images—visual remnants of responsive digital ecosystems, now frozen into aesthetic form.

The tension between the organic subject matter and the constructed visual vocabulary continues the ongoing interest in the boundary between human and machine authorship. Even as they depict burning forests or responsive ecosystems, the images betray their artificial origins through stylised simplicity, revealing how digital tools reinterpret and reshape natural forms.