Obsession

Obsession is a live generated self portrait created from tens of thousands of images accumulated in my private digital archive. A custom built application continuously processes this material and assembles my current likeness from fragments of previous photographs. The portrait is never fixed. Each new image made on a connected device can immediately alter its structure.

The work examines the moment when a private archive stops being a repository of memory and begins to operate as a system for producing identity. The self is not represented as a stable image, but as a process: assembled, broken apart and rebuilt in real time by algorithmic procedures.

Obsession exposes the mechanisms of digital archives, cloud storage and automated image processing, where identity is constantly reorganised through data. It asks whether a portrait can still describe a person when it is generated from the debris of their own past images.