29 x 29 x 29cm
 
Vintage 35mm Slide Frames, timber, artist pigment on Tasmanian Oak stand
 
System Error investigates the fragility of systems we rely on to make sense of memory. Composed of twenty-seven small cubes built from empty 35mm slide frames, the work echoes the architecture of an archive that has lost its content. Each frame is backed with colour, forming a coded surface that suggests structure, yet the interior of every unit remains hollow.
 
The object appears orderly and logical at first glance, but its emptiness interrupts any attempt at resolution. This tension reflects my experience of aphantasia, where the framework of remembering exists, but imagery does not. Here, the slide frames become containers for absent memories — a system designed to hold visual information but now functioning only as a shell.
 
By presenting a form that looks functional yet refuses completion, System Error asks viewers to consider where memory falters, how it fails, and what remains when the images we expect to retrieve simply aren’t there. It is an archive with the lights off: structured, intact, but ultimately unreadable.