- Linda Hollier
We often assume that what we see is all that exists. The works in my new series begin from a different premise: that every living presence radiates beyond its physical boundaries.
Presence is not confined to the visible body. It is a field of meaning and relevance created between a person and their environment and it extends into space through memory, emotion, movement and relationship.
Presence is not an object but a field. Like an atmosphere, it can fill a room and influence anyone who enters it.
The works in my new series “Fields of Presence” have glitches moving over figures.
The moving field in each work is not simply an effect imposed by me upon the subject but an invitation to perceive what usually remains unseen.
The visible subjects are stable, while the invisible fields reman in constant motion.
The pulsation in each work represents frequencies, emotions, memories or histories, fields we cannot ordinarily perceive, vibrating through and beyond the subject, and the artwork thus becomes a resonating body.
The undulating glitches represents a threshold between matter and energy, the seen and the unseen, body and atmosphere, presence and absence, stillness and movement.
The works in this series imagine what it might look like if invisible currents, emotional atmospheres, memories attached to places and the subtle exchanges between bodies and environment briefly crosses the threshold into visibility.
The subject appears to remain still, the field moves, and the subject exists in both states simultaneously.
Perhaps the real subject in each work is not the person in the image but presence itself. The figure is simply the place where presence becomes visible.
This invites a meditation on being.
My art is not the capture of a single frozen moment from one viewpoint. It invites an immersive atmosphere. It is my wish that its presence overlaps with the presence of the viewer.
Each video is not merely an animation but a perceptual study. The works are studies of presence itself.
Viewers often interpret digital distortion as an error. I am suggesting that my work is quietly reversing that assumption. In other words, perhaps we are not watching an artwork break down. The movement is not evidence that something is broken. It is evidence that something more is present than that which we usually perceive.
The glitch does not destroy the underlying image. It illuminates it, suggesting the slow, natural awakening of consciousness. Viewers are encouraged into a state of present-moment awareness, where they look through the screen into the deeper field of presence.
The viewer’s eye is encouraged to work in layers. The viewer must look through the movement to see the underlying form. This encourages a transparency of consciousness.
Much of my art uses transparency. My gauze like see through prayer shawls and my use of overlapping digital elements invite the viewer to “look through” the artwork to experience the living presence of the field, rather than just staring at a flat surface.
The pulsating wireframe glitch effect thus explores the idea that living presence extends beyond physical boundaries, turning digital distortion into a contemplative aesthetic.
The glitch in each video creates waves and shifts that evoke mystery and invite inquiry.
Perhaps we are watching perception opening up as the glitch effect becomes a language for the invisible. The glitch becomes a revelation.
The resulting video artworks are thus “revealings” rather than animations.
They suggest that the movement uncovers something latent within the image rather than adding something external to it.
Each artwork in this series continues to reverberate after the moment of its creation and in a sense Time itself becomes visible.
The series gathers together many of the themes of my work such as walking between worlds, movement within stillness, stillness within movement, the visible and the invisible, physical and digital, presence extending beyond the body, and art as an invitation to deeper perception.
The technology I am using in this series is not the focus but is serving a deeper inquiry.
This series is not about digital art. It’s not about glitches. It isn’t about software. It is about perception and presence.
The series is a perceptual journey inviting the viewers to move beyond a purely visual reality and become aware of what lies beneath the surface.