I love you Instagram (2021)

Exploring the role of modern technologies and media into understanding of identity, this project subverts the common tropes of Instagram to demonstrate the paradox of our digital avatars. Inspired by her indulgence in social media posting since middle school, the artist transferred her Instagram pictures onto tofu––a foodstuff often considered at once perfectly smooth, but ultimately designed to be consumed and easy to decay, much like our online output. Left exposed to the elements for several days, the quick-to-rot quality of tofu leads to the transformation of these images and pristine artefacts into decaying, potentially toxic material, exposing the artist’s own relationship to their digital self-image.

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I'm a new soul I came to this strange world (2023)