Images using the filter DIY: Freedom Story, which I created for Instagram. 2021.

I speculate about what a claim for “freedom” would do in IG users’ experience by bringing to mind the installation “Do it yourself: Freedom Territory” (1968) by Antonio Dias. Dias wrote about his installation: “a basic open structure, that only works from the moment someone uses the space declared free to put on an action(…) It is important that the person adopts a complete unconditioned position before penetrating the territory-structure.” I visually replicate the same open structure in the filter that Dias created with a grid dividing the space into 24 open squares.

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  • The birth of painting
  • Passports
  • Praxis
  • Homeland I and II
  • Photography performance “Blue  mud,” 2022.
  • Homebirth I and Homebirth II, 2022. Acrylic and tempera on canvas.  24X48 inches.
  • his universe
  • Changing sight
  • Seed Painting
  • You are here | They are here too
  • DIY: Freedom Story
  • Sereno/Catalpa