Aura’s Grocery starts with images appearing on a cassette that was removed from a faulty digital camera, with a set of photographs belonging to a stranger who had taken photographs of his head in a confined room. In the process of browsing, a photograph overlaps another photograph and different shapes enter the frames. This is not a reflection of external reality or a chemical substance involved in the photographic technique, but rather a formal manifestation of the malfunctions involved with the media – the electric energy, the digitizing, the software. Aura’s Grocery is one of the frames. It was painted in a realistic style with paint on canvas, in a manner simulating the operation of a graphic scanner: the act of painting mimicked the image of a spill not by dripping material from above, but with an organized coloring of the canvas from its right hand side to its left hand side. Later on the painting was documented using a digital scan, saved as a computer file and printed in a lambda technique, a modern photograph printing technique emulating traditional methods of development and print. The image’s prints were stretched to the sizes of four random frames that were found and picked up, and their sizes were determined according to the frames, as opposed to the customary way.

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