sheet film darkroom contact prints

Veronica is an archive born from the fleeting image streams of AI-generated platforms. While browsing these sites, I encountered an endless flow of creations—images made by others, freely visible and downloadable, yet belonging to no one. I noticed a lot of images of girls, they appeared for a moment, only to vanish upon refreshing the page.

Compelled by their transience, I began to collect them. Part of me resisted their disappearance, while another part sought to give them purpose beyond the screen. What emerged was an expansive archive of anonymous, authorless girls.

To bring these digital figures into our physical world, I turned to processes that grant them material existence. Rephotographing them with a technical camera transformed them into sheet film negatives, originals in their own right. Later, through silkscreen printing, I translated them into glass negatives. This method, prone to ink drying and clogging the mesh, introduced an element of chance: each print became unique, fragile, and imperfect.

Veronica is both preservation and transformation—a gesture of rescuing images from disappearance, while questioning authorship, ownership, and the circulation of anonymous digital bodies. It is an archive of girls who were never meant to remain, yet now exist as singular, material traces.