“Crack” is a raw, unfiltered exploration of digital disintegration, captured through a flatbed scanner and the fractured lens of a shattered MacBook Pro LCD screen. The work emerges from an organic glitch — a moment of digital collapse — where the screen itself becomes the canvas, its damaged pixels and broken circuits translating into an unpredictable and visceral abstraction.
There are no filters, no special effects — just the inherent beauty of a screen on the verge of total breakdown, where technology and human error collide.
The fractured LCD screen becomes the focal point, with each crack and distortion unraveling the image, creating a mesmerizing chaos of jagged lines, fragmented light, and shattered color. As the scanner’s light passes over this damaged surface, it captures the chaotic intricacies of the screen’s fractured architecture — the intersecting fissures of glass, the blurred pixels, and the unpredictable glitches that occur in the space between functional and broken.
In “Crack,” the absence of post-production manipulation imbues the piece with a brutal honesty. What we witness is not a crafted or idealized form, but a raw, unpolished moment — an organic glitch that speaks to the fragility and impermanence of the digital age. The abstraction pulls the viewer into a visceral engagement with the tension between technology’s precision and its inherent vulnerability, revealing the delicate architecture beneath the surface and the fragile nature of the systems that define modern life.
The composition, both chaotic and strangely beautiful, reflects the clash between form and dysfunction. The cracks disrupt the linear flow, fracturing space and light into chaotic patterns that refuse to resolve into anything coherent. In this disintegration, there is a kind of liberation — a release from the constraints of perfect digital order, offering instead an honest, unsettling vision of technology on the edge of collapse. “Crack” is a meditation on the fragility of both the digital and the human condition, where beauty is found in destruction and the glitch becomes the art.