Scrollage Series

Written on December 10th, 2023 by Dialekti Valsamou-Stanislawski

Digital Collages
2023

Description

Scrollage is a series of digital collages that capture the essence of late-night—and sometimes midday—wanderings through the digital world. This collection is the creative byproduct of revenge bedtime procrastination, where the habitual act of scrolling through the digital universe transforms into an artistic process.

Each piece in the Scrollage series is a layered fusion of images—a convergence of daily digital encounters, personal archives, and spontaneous photographic elements. The collages are created at night, on the same device used for these late-night scrolling sessions, blurring the boundaries between tool and canvas, artistic process and lived experience.

This autoethnographic series is characterized by a dreamlike, almost vaporwave aesthetic, though it frequently diverges into more organic visual paths. It constructs a space where fragments of internet culture and living organisms—from humans, animals, and birds to mycelium and microorganisms—are intricately woven into narratives that defy conventional compositions and color palettes.

Embedded within these visual narratives are personal elements—traces of the artist, loved ones, or fleeting encounters, subtly or overtly incorporated, adding layers of intimacy and depth. Each collage begins with one or two central elements, around which the rest of the composition organically unfolds, drawing from recently saved images and photographic captures.

Scrollage stands as proof of the creative potential hidden within the seemingly dull hours of the night. It is a collection where each piece is not just an image, but a portal to a world where consciousness and dreams intertwine, where the familiar is reinvented, and where the surreal becomes the norm.

The series is presented in its digital form, as well as in limited, numbered risograph print editions.