Untitled II presents virtual experience painting where organic forms—green, pink elements—float in atmospheric background materializing screen browsing experience as physical painted still life. Etem explores fluid condition between virtual and real: digital environment navigation (whether Google Maps scrolling or museum feed viewing) becoming source for traditional painting medium, creating meeting place between bits and atoms. The work's ambiguous forms appear simultaneously natural (bodily, biological) and digital (flat color, screenshot aesthetic)—this uncertainty questions how we resignify narratives from files when daily experience increasingly occurs through screens. Untitled II demonstrates appropriation of net content: virtual browsing transformed into physical painting, screen time becoming artistic medium rather than mere consumption activity. The still life materializes contemporary existence where digital and physical coexist fluidly—painted forms suggesting pixels made tangible, atmospheric background evoking screen glow, composition functioning as visual question about territories diluted by technologies where virtual experiences demand physical artistic expression.
 
In this project, exploring the fluid condition between the virtual and real world, the artist seek to materialize my experiences in digital environments - whether browsing through Google Maps or in the feed of an art museum - generating images as a meeting place between the world of atoms and that of bits*
 
Virtual experience painting materializing screen browsing—organic forms as meeting place between digital and physical medium. Untitled II from Medium screen time by Rodrigo Etem. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.