#illusion series — installation thumb

An installation view of the #illusion series, the title's 'thumb' borrowing the vocabulary of the digital thumbnail — the compressed format in which screen images are circulated and previewed. Ueda arranges multiple silkscreen-on-mirror panels in the gallery, each carrying a printed Instagram loading placeholder: the brief, blurred low-resolution image the platform displays before a post resolves. Hung together on reflective ground, the panels fragment any single viewer's reflection across several frames, reproducing in physical space the dispersed, fractured self-image the social feed produces during scroll. The piece is consistent with Ueda's broader practice of pulling fugitive interface graphics out of the phone and translating them into a craft-based printmaking material — the silkscreen mesh standing in for the screen of the device. Configured as installation rather than a single sheet, the work foregrounds the relational dimension of her project: the viewer becomes a discrete element of the printed image only by approaching the panels in the room.