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Palaver
willy, 2022on Foundation
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Foundation
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A surreal facility where old digital works from unfinished or canceled projects are broken down

Most digital artists understand the frustration of creating work that is never published. It feels strange to create something that does not exist in our world, that has no physicality and is ultimately a series of hand-crafted 1s and 0s. Many digital artists work commercially to support themselves, creating large volumes of work that are never used and eventually forgotten. Regardless of how much time it took to create the work, there is no physical reminder of its presence, no moment in which you have to bring it outside and throw it away. These digital objects simply vanish at the failure of a hard drive or a lapse in memory. It’s interesting to imagine the fate of these objects, the futility of having created them, and their not-so-glamorous departure from the digital world. Simultaneously memorialized and meaningless, this piece imagines the surreal void these objects disappear into.