Pomegranate Seeds (2026 – ongoing)

Portraits of the artist taken as proof of delivery by an Evri Driver are appropriated as works of art considering the role of the image as data, contract, function and proof.

These images are receipts. A transactional image, geo-tagged and administered as part of policy. Strict guidelines are expected to be followed which adhere to common GDPR policy: no faces, no interiors, clear identifying features of the external property. Taken with a specific device, an algorithm polices competition and prevents unauthorised imagery. The images themselves live on a server, most likely backed up internationally.

Digital flotsam: a persistent flow of temporal imagery integrated into the supply chain. Presented as traditionally framed, window mounted artworks, the portraits live in new contexts and ask new questions. Questions about data, photography and our role in the contemporary systems of complexity, within which our tech-mediated lives exist.

The moment shared with my delivery driver became a photographic receipt. My outstretched hand, my waist, my toes, my grubby front step held in a snapshot has been printed and carefully window mounted. These framed works stand against what they were expected to be: a few kilobytes on a server automated for destruction by an arbitrary schedule.