PAIRED explores the “nonsite”, a concept developed by artist, Robert Smithson. Smithson proposes that the space between two sites can also be constructed and therefore is a site in itself, the ‘non-site’. I’ve interpreted the “nonsite” in my projects as the processes which converts objects across digital and physical spaces. The way we experience the “non site” is ambiguous, however its existence is demonstrated through the distortion between physical and digital objects.  By converting a physical object to a digital format, it is designing an object and its experience to be distorted. Likewise, from the beginning an object made from biomaterials is intended to degrade.

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I chose to create head pieces made from bio materials to emphasise the deterioration which occurs in the “nonsite”. The relationship between digital and physical spaces is complex. Although the process of converting the bio material to a digital object distorts the object, it is also an act of monumentalisation.

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I was interested in the way experience is altered by pairing objects. Despite identical objects being encountered in similar ways, the experience of each is not identical, rather the initial experience of the object as self-contained and unique becomes irretrievable once it perceived as part of a pair. The second object is never considered in its singularity. Rather, the absent pair is always brought into focus as something which from the beginning is there by being absent.

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I used photogrammetry a way to demonstrate the “nonsite” and to pair a physical and digital construction of the same object. Photogrammetry uses photographs of a physical object to generate a digital 3D model. By default, the models developed are always part of pair as the digital object cannot exist without its physical counterpart. Through my fashion space, I wanted to capture the way the existence of a physical object impacts the experience of its digital pair and vice versa.