Shades of Absence

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The Panopticon: The Hidden Cost of Our Digital Lives

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Aug 03, 2024
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a study in grayscale : Exhibitionism and voyeurism

Have you ever felt the weight of your own visibility?

The pressure to reveal every facet of yourself, as if opacity were a sin?

The Society of Control

In our hyperconnected world, transparency has become a siren song, promising authenticity but often delivering anxiety. As an artist who works in monochrome, I've long grappled with the interplay of light and shadow, presence and absence.

But lately, I find myself pondering a different kind of chiaroscuro - the delicate balance between revelation and mystery in our digital lives.

"The society of transparency is see-through without light,"

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