Signal Lost, Message Remains
Medium: Photography, Digital Collage, Protest Documentation, Inkjet Prints
This body of work examines how collective presence can be visually and socially diminished through systems of mediation and selective attention. Created from photographs taken during public demonstrations, the images are digitally altered so that the human figure is removed, leaving only the signage that carries the message forward.
The backgrounds are layered with visual static, referencing moments when information becomes unclear, dismissed, or tuned out entirely. These disruptions become a metaphor for how public concern and civic expression can be overlooked or visually “blurred” within larger cultural systems of media consumption.
Rather than focusing on the individuals present, the work shifts attention to what remains readable when presence is erased, asking the viewer to consider how meaning survives when visibility is disrupted.
