I decided to play with the idea of memory loss and distortion and how this could be applied in a digital context by introducing intentional data corruption to an image. By taking an image and then changing its digital code - removing, adding, moving around etc and then re-saving, I found I could get unpredictable results - sometime very ugly and sometimes quite beautiful.

In an era where digital cameras become better and better at reproducing the world around us so perfectly, it seems perverse to deliberately spoil this, but I feel there is something more interesting to be found in this distortion, this uncertain and unpredictable interpretation of the what we see and ultimately what we remember.

The final images originate from the same, single image - a portrait of myself. Gradually more and more information is distorted until we left with a totally abstract image.

This data corruption, the imperfection in the images helps in some way to humanise the machine, to make it more like us and to reveal what lies beneath the surface, the invisible digital DNA that influences so much of the world around us.