Artist Statement

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Artist Statement

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Creation is a destructive act. Nothing can be created without destroying something else.
 Linguistically, the two words are antonyms, but artistically they feel less like flip sides of a coin and more like the action of flipping it. As we increasingly immerse ourselves in the metaverse, it becomes easier to deceive ourselves that virtual existence comes without consequences IRL. Bitcoin mining and NFT minting and the carbon emissions those actions create are evidence that nothing we do is without impact. Nothing we make fails to destroy.
 These images are truly representative of creation by destruction in the digital realm. Created when the CCD chip in a digital camera became submerged in water, the photos are but ghastly reflections of our physical world; Images whose binary development was violently arrested away from becoming photos of places or things and towards documentation of its demise.  Files created 2011, printed 2015. All first purchases included the correlating 8.5 x 11 archival inkjet print signed and dated by the artist.   https://opensea.io/collection/andrewkthompson-d1g1talwater