/ˈärdə,fak(t),/ is a series of photographs that explores how images function in a world increasingly defined by abstraction. It draws on the idea of the artifact as both a marker of cultural significance and as a digital distortion that emerges during the processing of an image-file.

Image-files scraped from the web are transformed through algorithmic resizing into large-scale abstractions. Photographs of political rallies, social media content, and webpage screengrabs are enlarged through a process that conversely reduces the visible information to its most basic compositional elements. The resulting abstractions explore how pictures are no longer fixed representations, but dynamic entities that continuously blur the boundaries between external representation and a personal sensorial experience.

By presenting the title phonetically, /ˈärdə,fak(t),/ echoes the image’s unstable nature—shaped, distorted, and redefined through processes of encoding and interpretation. They transform, evolve, and inevitably becoming an abstraction of itself, reflecting a world where meaning and form are perpetually unstable.