First I would like to thank Super rare for accepting my application for this exciting platform - such a pleasure to part of the future - with the future in mind - let me begin - I am Hallidonto a visual Artist from Scotland based in London UK - I have exhibited nationally and internationally and now within the digital landscape - My work is multifaceted and the basis of my practice is drawing, painting and VR – digital collage - my research and practise is centred around my "Cyborgia Manifesto" which unveils my fascination of the 'Cyborg' I have provided a link to the panel discussion I had been invited to -alongside comic book writer legend Warren Ellis at Central Saint Martins in London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Zq8VUYo4E&t=18s

The first piece I have selected for my debut is the digital collage "Sanctum 2.0" this evocative piece is a cherished work for me - the sinister - ominous atmosphere within this composition depicts a gathering of contorted and limbless figures - symbolically it raises many questions - this piece has been a visualisation I have had for the "Sanctum of Cyborgia" opera I am currently writing. I imagined this work to have echoes of classical motifs depicting historical events, mythos and legend. This work interprets notions of memory - existence and the conception of the mediated body through technological metamorphosis – humanity's evolution into organisms beyond our comprehension – the essence of the human all but a memory.