This is a
collection of severed limbs captured from Google Street View. These residues of
human bodies haunt the alternative realities of 360-degree images uploaded by Google
users.
What
constitutes a human in the camera’s eye? The glitches blur the boundary between
a body and its surroundings. Sometimes the body parts become independent
entities. They
are free – or should I say - footloose.
See @limb_o_rama for more
"Utu-Tuuli created this series of photos by culling
through Google Street View images online and looking for severed limbs. Other
than cropping, the artist did not manipulate the photos. The creation of
these mysteriously inhabited places was a collaboration between the artist and
technology; the automated, omnipresent camera meets an artist’s discerning eye.
When the images tech creates are glitchy and uncanny and ultimately point to a
dystopia future where humans lose control, think the 1968 movie “2001 A Space
Odyssey” or 1983’s sci-fi, “Videodrome”, by David Cronenberg."
- Kendra
Larson
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