It is a series of artworks exploring the interconnection between local and global, nature and man-made through textures formed by the environment and the humans’ imprint. We, humans, are the main cause of climate change. For thousands of years, we have modified the physical environment irrevocably, bringing disruption and imbalance to the ecosystems.

Тele(micro)scope is intended to document human imprints on the environment through photographing textures created by nature and man and distorting them creatively with the code, bringing a futuristic angle to the artwork. The photo used for the first artwork was taken on a secluded beach in South Africa. Even there humans leave traces with waste, shaping weird abstract creatures in the sand, that will stay there forever. Same as tourism and mass production are impacting traditional local industries. For instance, women of the Swahili coast and neighbouring shorelines traditionally have fished octopus. Their hunting balances on the movements of the tide, changes in the weather, the needs of their families, and demands of the local societies in which they live. But today’s drivers of change, such as the growth in global seafood markets, tourism, conservation efforts, and oil and gas extraction, threaten the context in which these women hunt octopus.

Likewise, tele(micro)scope explores and mixes together in a glitched reality our modern world dichotomies (pweza hunting vs global mass market – microscope vs telescope).

2022

Digital art, mixed media

1440 x 1920 px
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