Encounter, 150 x 121cm, from analog 6x7

A family gathers in front of a television set placed in a meadow, surrounded by nature. The television shows a campfire, the scene adopts the visual language of the romantic and shows the young family in an idyllic, peaceful countryside at evening. However, there is one element that irritates: the camp fire blazing within a television. Does it really provide warmth? Or is it all just an illusion.

In this image, the TV set symbolizes the world of media-based information and digitized emotion. Digital media appear to connect people to one another and quickly link us together, though in fact they increasingly alienate us; the individual is at risk of becoming isolated.

The gathering of the little family in front of the TV set makes manifest the absurd: it is the desire for familial security, their meeting before the virtual fire symbolizes the search for real warmth. And yet that warmth is denied to the family, it is visible, but cannot be felt.