- “I have no plans, either for the movies or anything else. I'm just drifting.”
Greta Garbo
DRIFTING
This online photographic project features two reworked images sourced from the internet, primarily through the phrase “Greta Garbage Walks.” Originally taken by paparazzi in the 1970s and 1980s, the photographs have been reframed, their colors altered, and re-presented on my website as autonomous visual works.
The project draws on strategies of appropriation art and the use of found footage as a contemporary artistic practice. By relocating these media-saturated images from their tabloid context into a minimalist, curated space, the work examines how photographic fragments—once consumed as celebrity ephemera—can be reframed as quiet, melancholic reflections on presence, disappearance, and the erosion of public identity.
A central reference point is Greta Garbo, the legendary Swedish-American actress who chose a life of solitude after an early exit from Hollywood’s spotlight. Her withdrawal from fame, and her drifting anonymity in later years, echo through the tone of the work. Garbo once said:
This drifting—between visibility and obscurity—mirrors the status of these images, endlessly circulating yet untethered from their original meaning.
This online photographic project features two reworked images sourced from the internet, primarily through the phrase “Greta Garbage Walks.” Originally taken by paparazzi in the 1970s and 1980s, the photographs have been reframed, their colors altered, and re-presented on my website as autonomous visual works.
The project draws on strategies of appropriation art and the use of found footage as a contemporary artistic practice. By relocating these media-saturated images from their tabloid context into a minimalist, curated space, the work examines how photographic fragments—once consumed as celebrity ephemera—can be reframed as quiet, melancholic reflections on presence, disappearance, and the erosion of public identity.
A central reference point is Greta Garbo, the legendary Swedish-American actress who chose a life of solitude after an early exit from Hollywood’s spotlight. Her withdrawal from fame, and her drifting anonymity in later years, echo through the tone of the work. Garbo once said:
“I have no plans, either for the movies or anything else. I'm just drifting.”
This drifting—between visibility and obscurity—mirrors the status of these images, endlessly circulating yet untethered from their original meaning.