DIGITAL ARTS

SOFRA - EYE OF THE WORLD explores the origin of the ornament through its behavior in time, movement, and light. Starting from the sofra motif, the work investigates what happens to a geometric pattern when it is released from its material surface and becomes a pulsating visual field that surrounds the viewer. 

Within this digital field appears the Eye Dazzler, a motif drawn from the tradition of Navajo weaving. The ornaments act as visual vortices, leading the viewer into a state of heightened yet unstable perception. Their function is not decorative but ritual and protective, it shifts the gaze away from the rational and toward an inner experience. By translating traditional motifs into a digital language, the ornament becomes light, pixel, and movement. 

SOFRA – EYE OF THE WORLD constructs a digital heterotopia in which different visual systems coexist without hierarchy. Ornament is revealed as a universal code of collective memory, suggesting that beneath cultural differences we share the same forms, rhythms, and symbols. 

The video work was created during the international artist residency program of the WAIT & HOPE FOUNDATION. It premiered at UN SUEÑO DIGITAL FESTIVAL (“Digital Dream”) at In Space Gallery in Mexico City in 2026. 

Landscapes and peoples represented through the stylization of the ornament: SERBIA, BULGARIA, ALBANIA, ARMENIA, CAUCASUS, PERSIA, IRAN, TURKIYE, ANATOLIA, GEORGIA, CHINA, AFGHANISTAN, MALI, MOROCCO, ARGENTINA, MEXICO, NAVAJO, PERU... 

ASAKO - music by Logotet