There is a vast amount of information compiled about each of us that multiplies with every keystroke and every place we go. We give away boatloads of this information willingly; by installing that “free” app or “liking” a post on facebook, by swiping our “rewards” card or placing a call, by documenting our every move via a growing list of social media. Appearing anywhere in public nearly guarantees a trail via cameras owned both publicly and privately.
And yet, we quaintly continue to shred paper documents as if it begins to protect our privacy.
Intrigued by these artifacts, I have created portraits of individual using only shredded documents that they have collected and curated for this purpose. Each person’s accumulation of shreds is different, reflecting more than one might think about that individual. Each collection tells a subtle story.
Together these portraits tell us something about the deeper nature of the way we amass and process information in our data-obsessed world.
I have taken these shreds of confidential documents that were intentionally rendered unreadable, and made them public again, testing the illusion of privacy by holding it up for scrutiny.
