Adam Arthur Grotton

My work explores the collision of nature and infrastructure, memory and distortion, reality and the digital abyss. Using photography as both a tool and a canvas, I deconstruct and reconstruct landscapes, layering organic and industrial elements into surreal compositions. The images exist in a liminal space-part dream, part digital artifact -where familiar environments dissolve into spectral echoes of themselves. I manipulate my photographs through a process of digital layering, color fragmentation, and intentional degradation, a technique l refer to as "deep frying." This process is informed by the visual absurdity of meme culture and the hyper-saturation of digital life, where images are endlessly copied, compressed, and reinterpreted. The result is a visual language that embraces both the artificial and the organic, the hyperreal and the ghostly. In this series, tangled branches, decayed structures, and shifting hues act as metaphors for the tension between human expansion and the natural world's quiet resistance. At times, the digital interventions reveal hidden vibrancy - glitches of iridescent surrealism emerging from the landscapes. Other times, they create voids - erased spaces where meaning is lost or rewritten. These spectral imprints of realism blur the boundary between documentation and reinvention, questioning what is real and what has been altered beyond recognition. Through this process, I seek to challenge our perception of permanence, asking: what happens when reality is subjected to infinite digital transformation? How does memory persist when landscapes are reduced to pixels, layered, and repurposed? My work is an exploration of these questions, a meditation on the evolving relationship between physical space and the ever-expanding digital realm.