As well as being a showcase of work, the idea behind this site is to share a storied life in the digital age - my life to be precise, as that’s the one I know best.
Across centuries, if not millennia, of recorded history, the stories behind the lives of most individuals, with all the richness and insights they contain, have gone largely undocumented and unnoticed.
And yet there is much we could learn from one another by understanding lived experiences in detail better and technology gives us the means to do it. This photo montage, for example, would not have been possible to create 35 years ago, before the hard drive and Adobe Photoshop.
Global connectivity, online publishing and social media have created the opportunity to change that, but also brought with them the risks of atomisation of the individual and the risk of lives lived without coherent growth.
Various facets of human interaction are increasingly becoming fragmented and human identity is becoming compartmentalised and converted into data, with access to information about it being dependant upon online subscriptions or hidden behind paywalls.
More than ever, I believe human individuality and its uniqueness is not just an important point of difference for us versus artificial intelligence, it’s our greatest asset.
This point in time, when we went from analogue to digital by design in all sorts of ways, will seen as pivotal. When historians look back, how will they gather a sense of how human existence has been affected?
How will we ever fully understand again, in a purely organic way, what it means to be human?
It’s a narrative I am seeking to understand and to document.