Data points
In the digital world, countless data points about us are continuously collected. These points are used to optimize processes—friend requests on social media, improved navigation systems, tailored advertising—and are automated through programming. Though invisible to us, they subtly shape the way we live.
At the same time, I began to notice how our physical reality is also filled with points—tiny, often overlooked details we usually ignore. Like a frequency illusion, once I started seeing them, they appeared everywhere. I began documenting these points with analog and digital photographs, realizing they are the antithesis of digital data points. Unlike their virtual counterparts, they don’t define how we live or reveal anything about us. They are, in a sense, useless data. Yet, the more I photographed them, the more they revealed themselves to me—quiet, persistent, and strangely meaningful.
Digital photographs
Year
2023
Analog photographs
Using generative tools like Processing, I began creating overlays from my point images—both analog and digital photographs. These new compositions emerged beyond my control, unfolding in ways I could neither predict nor influence.
Creative coding
Eventually, I wrote a short program that randomly generates points. I juxtaposed these compositions with my analog point photographs, creating a dialogue between the digital and the analog—two worlds connected through the language of points.
And what if I moved away from photography, and created something completely and digitally pure?
Layering and blurring hundreds of circles in different red shades, these dots emerged.
