100 x70cm Acrylic on MDF
Transcription From News Clip:
"This is BBC News. Here are the headlines. The opposition mayor of Istanbul. Akram Emamulu is remanded in custody on charges of corruption in a case that has triggered protests across Turkey. This is the scene live as an Istanbul courthouse, where he has been charged. An Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza has killed a senior Hamas figure, Sala al Bada wheel and his wife, according to the group. Al Arabadawiel, was the vice chair of Hamas Political Bureau, and previously the group spokesperson. Israel is yet to comment on the strike. And medics in Southern Gaza say at least 18 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on the cities of Ruffa and Khan Yunis, where an evacuation order has just been issued. Pope Francis will be discharged from hospital later today. after five weeks of treatment for pneumonia. The 88 year old pope is expected to appear at his hospital window."
One Minute World News: Deconstructed and Reconstructed
In a time where news is delivered in relentless, bite-sized bursts, the BBC’s One Minute World News stands as both a personal convenience and a symptom; condensing the complexity of global events into a series of compressed 60 seconds headlines.
This project reflects on how we visually and psychologically absorb such fleeting information.
Using a custom method build from a developing an understanding of computer programming – Python, I extract a single vertical column of pixels from each successive frame of a one-minute news video: the first column from the first frame, the second from the second, and so on. Thus building a single composite image that spans the entirety of the video. This becomes a visual trace of time, movement, repetition, and rupture. This image is then translated back in to the real world in the form of paint.
The result is often abstract, sometimes eerily recognisable. Faces may emerge if they linger long enough onscreen (a huge breaking story). Other times, all that remains is a ripple of motion, an image that’s been seen, forgotten, and reassembled.
The viewer is left to question what they’re looking at, much like how we often engage with the news: scanning, half-understanding, then moving on.
As someone living abroad, the BBC remains a tether to a familiar worldview. But in a world increasingly shaped by algorithmic feeds, misinformation, and shifting truths, even familiarity becomes uncertain.
This work doesn’t offer answers it pauses the scroll.
