Latent Affects

This gallery documents the ongoing dialogue between my subconscious and the machine. Here, I use the AI’s latent space to render specific emotional frequencies into high-contrast reality. Each piece stands alone as a singular moment of "mnemonic resignification," accompanied by the internal narrative that sparked its creation.

The Digital Erasure

The Narrative:
After I shared a thread on the Iranian women's uprising, X suspended my account for "inauthentic behaviour"—a silent, digital assassination of my perspective. This work is my response to that erasure. It is a refusal to be deleted by a blind algorithm.


Symbolic Anchor:

  • The Cacti: Skin-thickening resilience against a hostile landscape of "Rules."


Unmasking

The Narrative:
For years, I performed according to the "algorithmic gaze" of others, wearing a curated mask of compliance. This piece captures the moment that performance shattered, allowing the raw, unpolished truth of my identity to finally break through the surface.



Symbolic Anchor:

  • Bruised Floral: The authentic self, surfacing through the cracks. It is beautiful, but marked by the struggle of its own emergence.



The Involuntary Archive

The Narrative:
This piece explores the mind’s autonomous survival mechanism: the forced suppression of internal fractures. Without our consent or awareness, the subconscious "clinically" vials away memories to protect the self, leaving us to live with the ghosts of what we cannot recall.



Symbolic Anchor:

  • The Syringe & Vial: The invasive, cold precision of memory extraction and the loss of agency over one's own history.