Fragmenting the Day – Reconstructing Our Digital Selves 

In this project, we delved deeper into the images we project and how they influence our memories. With a background in photography, the logical approach to adding motion or depth to a photograph might be through techniques like long exposure, but here we took a different path. Inspired by our previous explorations with grids and deconstruction, we shifted our focus to the curated digital images we present to the world, particularly through social media.

Social media portrays an edited version of reality, a carefully curated set of moments enhanced and selected to project an idealised image of our daily lives. But behind these perfect snapshots lies a different truth. In this project, we began with the simple act of documenting a day in images and then fragmented those digital photographs, breaking them down into parts. We then reassembled the elements into new, abstract compositions—pieces of the day reimagined.

Through this process, we invite viewers to question how we record, curate, and manipulate the narratives of our lives. By deconstructing these “perfect” moments and reconstructing them into something new, we explore the gap between the life we project online and the one we actually live.