June 2024
Soft Collapse
“SOFT COLLAPSE” is a moving digital artwork created through a process of pixelated distortion and subtle, rhythmic fragmentation. It explores the intimate disintegration of identity, memory, and presence—rendered in shifting grayscale and composed of overlapping square frames. The work moves quietly, almost tenderly, unraveling itself in fragments that simultaneously dissolve and reconstruct. At its core, “SOFT COLLAPSE” is about the quiet undoing of form: not a violent destruction, but a slow, graceful fall into abstraction.
Created using a mix of high-contrast photographic imagery, frame-by-frame distortion, and animated pixel segmentation, the piece was built to feel fluid despite its structural fragmentation. The image was manipulated using layered masking, low-bit interference, and grid-based disruption. Fine details—like the silver hoop earring or the texture of skin—remain momentarily visible before slipping out of alignment, as though memory is glitching. The use of square frame movement and offset layering was deliberate, evoking the look of corrupted video or interrupted signal, but softened to move like breath rather than noise.
