SPARK explores how online dating platforms shape our understanding of love and interaction with chance. This video artwork uses a surrealist photomontage aesthetic to critique the curated control of online interactions, where affection is capitalised in superficial gestures and a hijacked psyche operating on the primal need to give and receive connection.
Through completely AI-generated close-up portraiture, SPARK examines the complexities of digital identity. Each portrait progressively pixelates, reflecting the fragmented "hyper-reality" of online encounters. This visual degradation, culminating in a single plane of colour, symbolises how individuals dilute themselves into composed photos and vague descriptions —leaving only a mere fragment of their entirety.
The work represents love as a transformative force, moving from the mundane to the subconscious. The video transitions from everyday people to a layered, chaotic blitz of encounter, revealing an uncanny aesthetic and underlying consistencies of the human face and synthetic human.
SPARK
SPARK, 2025, Digital Video, colour, 2:20