
Deconstruct, Reconstruct.
What is a natural image?
The work began from a realization that we are accustomed to digital images that we perceive them “natural.” But what does individual mean when one says an image is “natural”?
The video installation explores how we perceive and consume images. Inspired by Derrida’s hauntology, digital images exist independently beyond representations and make influences as it haunts us. A projector is used as a metaphor for a virtual digital screen in 3-dimensional spaces, in order to visualize image reproduction and diffusion beyond the screen. Images on a screen are multiplied by a mirror reflection and projections, releasing them from a screen to float in layers. Flashing images peppered on a black screen creates afterimages, haunting our eyes from here to there. Two sitting cushions are placed in front of the computer and the other side to indicate a bilateral relationship. Yet, installation is placed on the floor so that viewers can walk around and look down as a whole like an architecture miniature model.
The work aims to raise reconsiderations through defamiliarization. It connects the history of cinema, image research, and Steve Reich’s clapping music. The video takes found footage from online, then deconstructs and disperses them to unveil how images are constructed. Sound, which resembles a printshop, is looped in delays with video, which is designed to imply that there is no fixed pair. Differences in durations are designed to be minor and odd in order to have constantly different combinations and avoid return throughout one day

