Jason Bushill

bushilljason@gmail.com

Swarm

I’m interested in the technologies of memory and identity. Degrading random personal archive images from 2016 to the present, I explore the synaesthetic and nonsensical quality of experience as it connects and fragments through time.

The images’ colour distortions are the making of a faulty home printer, and my own forcing of copies out by hand. The process became a wrestling of agency between human and machine, digital and tactile, and mediums of images, text and drawings. Corrupted files, duplicates and blank prints are displayed at once to convey the impermanence of memory despite years of self-documenting.

In sharing my archive this way, I question my role as creator and audience, moving from a need to create images that outlive us towards an embracing of collective experience in the present.