THE THINGS WE LOST
JUST TO GET HERE
If you close my eyes forever, will it all remain unchanged – 2025
“Battle Group#1: The things we lost just to get here” is a collection of imagery and animated films that represent my artistic practice and journey through motion design, animation, and visual culture of how nostalgia, memory, and media technology and decay can shape emotional experience in the digital first age.
Drawing on my background in film, television, and advertising, and informed by Abstract Expressionism, pop art and graffiti, my work re-imagines lost media through contemporary tools and design logic. Each piece is built as a visual system – sequenced, reactive, and intentionally fragmented – designed to evoke the sensory texture of memory and further picturacy language. I’m interested in how digital surfaces can carry emotional weight, and how the ephemeral nature of media, mirrors the instability of personal and collective histories. By collapsing the aesthetic of analog imperfections into digital structures, I invite viewers into a space where feeling, technology, and image continuously feed into one another.
200 views of Rothko’s Digital Graffiti – 2025
The injury cannot be healed, It extends through time – 2025
Going nowhere soon, but they wanted to go and then left – 2025
My nerves are raw on being accessible as i dig the hole for my information -2025
The phosphenes in my eyes are just the flaws i see around you – 2025
When we finally made a plan for ourselves, it was to tear a hole in the middle of our lives – 2025
The things we lost just to get here and have to repeat – 2025
Michael Woodruff Digital Artist 