BECAUSE OF THE INTERNET
Because of the Internet
(2025)
Because of the Internet, is a zine that includes a collection of different visual expriments that are about fragmentations of reality. The collages treats the act of remembrance and memory like how an old computer tries to process damaged files. The images break apart, distort, repeat and overlap and lose their original core. In the age of the internet, personal memory becomes intertwined with screens, feeds, glitches, even the happiest moments include the technological. The works explore how the internet has transformed remembrance into an act of endless reconstruction. The more a memory is revisited, the less certain it becomes. eventually, all that remains is a ghost of the original, endlessly copied, endlessly compressed, endlessly distorted and forever out of reach, all in low resolution.
This project explores the relationship between analog and digital image-making through an iterative collage process. For each page; Starting from eight individual compositions, I manipulated each piece digitally before reassembling them into a final handmade collage. By moving images back and forth between physical and digital spaces, I aimed to create visual friction between texture, reproduction, and authorship. The work is heavily informed by internet culture, self-published zines, and my ongoing interest in collecting, remixing, and recontextualizing found image.