Indefinite Fidelity

Zach Karpinellison, Running Dog, October 2020

We encounter these 'degraded' videos, which struggle to shuffle their blocky pixels into crisp, flat details, more frequently than not. And yet, instead of seeing their specific value, (or the beauty in these so-called low-quality images), we frame them as incomplete, signalling not their worth but their potential to be clearer and better.