"Electronics Soul" The blue shadow drifting across the LCD screen belongs to no one's memory, no one's wish. It is only the echo of a fading consciousness that spilled into the circuitry. In the moment he once awoke, he blended his own heartbeat with the pulse of electricity and drew breath inside this light. The figure rising from the noise was born not from the depth of sleep, but from the layering of fragmented memories. At the very edge of the living world, he persisted for just one moment — and that choice was preserved forever as data. What lingers in the depths of that memory… In this darkness, I lean in and listen to the flow of data The LCD light wraps around me, breathing life into my lungs I quietly raise my face from the noise, laying the breath of electricity over my heartbeat This is the space between the living world and the beyond, where a momentary memory remains on the screen What you found was not me — but the "electronic self" I constructed for you to see In this light, I chose to go on living as data, never to be trapped forever I send my quiet tears out on a signal, to heal something inside you ◈ Artist's Note For me, the recurring theme is the boundary between the visible and the invisible — that ambiguous territory in between. What I set out to capture in this piece is the moment consciousness merges with electronics: a presence as fragile as it is radiant, like an afterimage still echoing with fierce light. The blue-green tones that drift across the entire canvas carry a texture that evokes the phosphor ghost of an old monitor, or the visual noise of data in motion. At the heart of this portrait is a translucent presence whose edges never quite resolve. I deliberately stopped short of rendering the figure in sharp detail. By layering the deep black of the background with the effects of blue light, I created a sense of weightless suspension — as though the subject has never fully anchored itself to physical space. I also scattered grain and noise intentionally across the surface and edges of the image, reinforcing the feeling that this being is assembled, above all else, from data. The poetry in the piece was deeply shaped by these same visual choices. Lines like "the blue shadow floating on the LCD screen" and "laying the breath of electricity over my heartbeat" are, for me, the exact quality of light I was reaching for in the work. I wanted to articulate the emotion that oscillates between two states: bodily life, and the permanence of existing as information. In the process of writing the poem, I arrived at this concept of the "electronic self." The line "What you found was not me — but the 'electronic self' I constructed for you to see" is the central question the work poses. I wanted those words to reinforce the fragility of the blue shadow on the screen, the unstable flicker of the light. By preserving only the most certain fragments of memory and dissolving everything else that felt like "me" into the noise, I gave the piece a particular quality of distance. Throughout, I was conscious of an experience where the eye does not settle on any single point, but instead drifts through the space carried by the flow of light effects and noise. Much like the process of a receiver picking up a transmission, I want viewers to feel themselves drawn into that "echo" — to hold still and listen. I hope this layering of blue light is understood not merely as beauty, but as a site of interrupted communication, and from within it, a faint glimmer of hope. ◈ Edition This work is a limited-edition giclée print from the Mystique In Enigma series. MIE #171 ◈ Keywords Electronics / Soul / Digital Art / Glitch / Consciousness / Memory / Electronic Heart / Ghost in Machine / Blue Light / Echo / Data Flow / Liminal Space