a skin, a sea, an island, a prison

a skin, a sea, an island, a prison interrogates the racialised aesthetics of nature and the body through a layering of audio-visual composition. A white woman, dead by the lake, her body fetishised from classical paintings to Scandi-noir thrillers, serves as an entry point into how whiteness is inscribed onto landscapes. The work examines whiteness as the default category of the “human,” relegating the non-white and non-human to the margins, justifying a policing of purity through race relations and environmental exploitation. Engaging with the materiality of the digital, it layers sound and image to explore tensions between AI, human embodiment, and ecological collapse.