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“Although humans are able to “discern the relative complexity and orderliness of paintings or patterns after only a single glance afforded by a 50 millisecond exposure,” it is the brain’s ability to continually decode and recode information which allows us to compute every situation we encounter uniquely different. This type of fragmentation is a way of connecting disjointed components together to create a complex structure of how we view the world around us.” …


“And the political and economic weight that the image carries is incentivised through these distribution platforms where it accumulates more social and economic capital. As the image gains increasingly more ‘data-currency’ with each transaction it is engaged with, its embedded value is proffered by those controlling entities. In this exchange what appears to be a binary-transaction becomes a contrived moment of reciprocity where the benefits of that exchange are disguised as social expansion.”