# Rollr Coastr

By [socio](https://paragraph.com/@socio) · 2022-03-13

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![created: 2022; materials: original photography, digital media, adobe photoshop and lightroom, apple photos, google snapseed, lightricks photoleap and imageleap](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/35e745bb038a347f443306b9daf18bb7010961bc31c94f26283d1d7a445e2828.png)

created: 2022; materials: original photography, digital media, adobe photoshop and lightroom, apple photos, google snapseed, lightricks photoleap and imageleap

**_Rollr Coastr_ merges images of an airport escalator and a sexual encounter, evoking the mutual mediation between human physical intimacies and contemporary technical forms.**

**The collage is redolent of a digital candy store fever dream, with linear and pixelated imagery stylized in the gumdrop hues of a retro-futuristic color palette. For socio, the image of the staircase is a potent symbol, invoking human-technical intersections that transform both. In pursuit of an aspiration, the pursuer must often engage with paradox. That is, the pursuer must confront, enact, and/or embody contradiction. In the process, both the pursuer and their world are transformed, sometimes unexpectedly and even irrevocably. Staircases symbolically embody such intersections, where ascent is made possible by juxtaposing in series forms that are simultaneously tensile and compressive, perpendicular and complementary. The staircase in _Rollr Coastr_ is an airport escalator–electronic, mechanically automated, and transitory.**

**Thematically, the collage is resolutely ambiguous, consistent with digital mediations, which enable, undermine, and otherwise heterogeneously alter the experience and imagination of human sexuality. Some viewers may interpret _Rollr Coastr_ in light of dating apps, online pornography, or other subtypes of digital intimacy. For others, the collage may speak to inherently connective human needs, which both drive the development of sociotechnical information systems, and often overwrite their ostensibly rational, platonic, or utopian objectives.**

**A visual amalgam of anomic, mediated disembodiment and effulgent, delicious electro-fusion, _Rollr Coastr_ evokes both reflection and titillation, inviting the viewer to tarry within the trouble-rich paradox of digital intimacy.**

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*Originally published on [socio](https://paragraph.com/@socio/rollr-coastr)*