JAN WOLD
Scan series 2016
First created for Hymen Art Magazine, this series frees desktop scanners from their conventional role as precise, passive instruments of reproduction. Instead of capturing static objects, both the machines and the subjects move, producing images that the scanners were never designed to render. Light, motion, and time collide across the scanning surface, creating a form of visual sampling or remixing where the machine interprets—and misinterprets—reality, generating unexpected abstractions.
Unlike photography, which freezes a single instant through a lens, these works unfold temporally, recording traces of motion, texture, and shifting light. Each scan becomes a layered testament to duration, contingency, and chance. The series transforms familiar technology into a collaborator, a responsive participant in the creative process, revealing the porous boundary between subject and apparatus and offering a meditation on perception, impermanence, and the beauty of unpredictability.









