Year: 2017-2021
Purpose: Technical Exploration
Technique: .svg manipulation, AI Image Trace.
Medium: Digital Image, SVG file.

| Standard Vector Graphics format or SVG is to vector formats as JPG is to Pixel information in terms of its accessibility and ease of manipulation. Unlike JPG, it is not compressed and thus susceptible to more spectacular glitches. However, one may still displace its contents via changing the characters contained within its files when opened via a text editor.

This series of works starts first as a photograph that is vectorised via Adobe Illustrator’s well recognised ‘image trace’ function, then transformed via Notepad into the forms you see below.