i'm a mess

For this project, I reached back to a poem I wrote in my adolescent years about my fractured state of mind back then. In case of the data body of my poem is devoured by a sufficiently developed data profiling algorithm, the tech companies will be able to capitalize on the feelings of my younger self. To preserve this piece of emotional expression, I concealed it behind the noise of several layers of glitches and databending. Through the concealment of the original data and the simultaneous construction upon it, the emerging piece not only became more suggestive but also gained conceptual significance. The data is corrupted, the message is lost, leaving only the form of expression, which is fundamentally personal.