Beyond the Glitch - A New Identity

Beyond the Glitch is about what comes after the break: a new identity taking shape. A woman stands in profile, facing left into pure black, her eyes lowered. Behind her, at the right edge, rises a wall of green code in thin vertical lines. Her pale hair streams back into it, as if she had just stepped out.

From the neck down her body is made of hundreds of small bright fragments. They swarm across the lower left of the picture like a flock of birds, and it is hard to tell whether they are leaving her or coming together. Dark specks drift between her hair and the wall. Her face is the one part that is whole.

The atmosphere is still and cool, green on black, with a sense of something just finished or just begun. To me the fragments are arriving. The title speaks of a new identity, and I read the picture as the moment a person is put together again, different from before.

On a wall the empty black at the left gives the figure room to breathe. It may bring back a time when you started over, or speak to an interest in code, virtual worlds and who we are online. The surreal greens suit dark or white walls, black frames and steel. It fits a home office, a studio, a bedroom, a living room or a hallway.