A sculpture featuring a black cat whose bulging eyes make it look shocked by something it has seen. The cat sits atop three microwaves containing erased hard drives.
The work is inspired by the popular LOLcat meme “What Has Been Seen Cannot Be Unseen,” which describes the experience of encountering disturbing, repugnant, or horrific content online—and the impossibility of erasing its image from one’s mind. Can data ever truly be erased—from our hard drives, or from our memories?
