“Everything I Know About This Is Against My Will” - so reads the statement written in spray-painted mobile application logos, used in my work Ransom Notes from 2026. The statement appeared to me, in the commentaries of a news post, found in my Instagram feed.  Involuntary algorithms, and the shadow as an allegory of a secret stalker, drove my conceptual incentive to use transparency and shadows as materials for this work. The white spray-painted logos on clear polyester film, framed in an acrylic frame, follows the ratio dimension of an enlarged iPhone.

The use of material transparency was inspired by the aesthetics of the Y2K era, when see-through devices reflected a sense of trust and control over the inner workings of the hardware. A sense of control that has since been replaced by sleek minimalism and algorithms that hold our attention in a Stockholm Syndrome situation.