Left To My Own Devices - ‘Screen Cleaners’

“Valerie Green’s Screen Cleaner series considers the space of the digital screen by examining the interplay between the virtual and the tangible. Green directly photographs her computer, tablet or smartphone screen, upon which layers of her own images are displayed. At stages throughout her cyclical process, she sprays liquid screen cleaner onto the surface of any one of these devices. The drops, acting akin to a field of lenses, physically amplify and distort the pixels of the glowing image, creating vibrantly coloured abstractions tensely held in space between the real and the virtual, where image, process, medium and optics converge.”