cathedrals
2024—cathedrals is an ongoing exploration of photographic evolution on the internet. It focuses on how screenshots resist algorithmic hegemony by freezing the interface, relieving the image of active data extraction. With the ubiquity of digital photography in contemporary culture, the instrinsic value of digital images has been reduced, leaving them free for harvest by artificial systems. It is through the screen's gaze that we find a source of truth and freedom from digital optimization. Despite inhabiting the same realm of impossibility as the generative image, the screenshot's ability to capture a moment in time becomes an antidote to the unreality of synthetic media.