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When Caravaggio crashes into OnlyFans

I want to explore another category of sacred image.
Not icons. Not anti-icons.
These are non-icons:
Where the pixel becomes another form of iconostasis,
Where digital light wraps flesh in gold.
Where they mortified the flesh to reach heaven,
I sanctify the body to find grace.

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DIGITAL DEVOTIONALS

Digital Devotionals Installation View

Installation View

Digital Devotional Single Unit

Individual Chapel

Digital Devotionals is an installation project where digital sacred art meets physical contemplative space. Each unit combines a vintage frame sourced from Thessaloniki's Bit Bazaar with an iPad Pro, whose screen becomes the sole source of illumination. The carefully designed kneeler invites viewers into an intimate dialogue with each work, while a subtle soundscape of whispers and sacred echoes creates an immersive atmosphere. When multiple units are installed, their asynchronous audio layers merge into a shifting choral environment. This installation project is conceived for gallery spaces, museums, and site-specific environments.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

1. THE BODY AS BATTLEFIELD

In an era where flesh meets pixel, I craft another sacred space. Our bodies are no longer just matter - they are interfaces between eternal desires and evolving technologies. The digital realm is not a degradation of physical reality but another space where human devotion manifests itself. Where tradition demanded mortification, I proclaim sanctification.

2. MANUAL DIGITAL CRAFT

I reject both the complete automation of AI and the fetishization of traditional techniques. My digital brush strokes are deliberate acts of devotion, each pixel placed with the same care Caravaggio's workshop gave to their pigments. Technology is not my master but my brush. In the age of algorithmic creation, I choose conscious craftsmanship.

3. SACRED CONCEALMENT

The pixel joins the long tradition of sacred veils. Each painted pixel is both a gesture of concealment and revelation, transforming digital censorship into artistic sanctification. Like the veils that have always separated the sacred from the profane, our pixelated surfaces create spaces of digital mystery. Not hiding, but elevating. Like the Byzantine iconostasis, the pixel becomes another threshold between visible and invisible.

4. SACRED PROFANITY

I witness the eternal coexistence of sacred and profane in every space. The same screen that displays religious icons hosts OnlyFans creators. These are not icons, nor anti-icons, but non-icons: another category of sacred image emerging from our time. I don't solve this contradiction - I embrace it as a timeless paradox manifesting in digital form.

5. RITUALS

The selfie becomes another form of ex-voto. The subscription transforms into another type of tithe. Through Digital Devotionals, I create spaces of contemplation where technology becomes invisible. The screen is not a barrier but a window to transcendence, its light another form of candlelight, the vintage frame another bridge between times. Each installation is a chapel for one, a space where eternal devotion meets contemporary form.

6. ACHEIROPOIETA DIGITALE

I explore another form of images "not made by human hands." Where Byzantine tradition found divine presence in miraculous images, we find it in the space between human intention and digital mediation. The algorithm manifests as another form of miracle, the code another form of divine intervention. Even in concealment, through painted pixelation, we find another path to truth: the revelation of the digital sublime.

7. AUTHENTIC SIMULATION

In the age of digital reproduction, authenticity lies in the honest embrace of simulation. My work doesn't hide its digital nature - it celebrates the new materiality of the pixel, the new texture of the screen. Like Caravaggio's revolutionary realism, this is not imitation but transformation. The digital is not a copy of the physical - it is its own form of presence.

8. SACRED IMPERFECTION

I proclaim the eternal divinity of the unconventional body. Just as Caravaggio elevated street people to saints, I sanctify the bodies rejected by mainstream canons. Every scar, every fold, every mark of life becomes a holy sign. In the digital realm, imperfection is not a flaw but a mark of authenticity, a testament to the sacred variety of human form.