In this project I am working on 'invisibility', inspired by the German artist Hito Steyerl.
When I was thinking about how to represent 'invisibility', I focused on 'when I think I am invisible'. I think that the moment of emotional breakdown makes me feel invisible in the world. As I was working on my final project, my mood swings became more and more intense due to stress and panic as the deadline approached.
For this project I took photographs of deadlines in my life – sunsets, traffic lights, timetables at school – and I converted these images into base64 code because I thought the world was made up of code, making the images invisible to people directly. I then removed some random texts to reflect a moment when I was no longer visible due to an emotional breakdown. I also recorded the sounds on the images at that moment and removed some of the random sounds as well.
I believe that human life is like a code, one has to live and work within the prescribed time and rules in order to function, and when we experience some setbacks and emotional breakdowns, we are like these codes with some missing parts, resulting in not functioning properly.