Archive of Phantom Limbs

This is a collection of severed limbs captured from Google Street View. These residues of human bodies haunt the 360-degree images uploaded by Google users.

What constitutes a human in the camera’s eye? The glitches blur the boundary between a body and its surroundings. Sometimes the body parts become independent entities. They are not bodies without organs but limbs without bodies. They are free - or should I say - footloose.

"Utu-Tuuli created this series of photos by culling through Google Street View images online and looking for severed limbs. Other than cropping, the artist did not manipulate the photos. The creation of these mysteriously inhabited places was a collaboration between the artist and technology; the automated, omnipresent camera meets an artist’s discerning eye. When the images tech creates are glitchy and uncanny and ultimately point to a dystopia future where humans lose control, think the 1968 movie “2001 A Space Odyssey” or 1983’s sci-fi, “Videodrome”, by David Cronenberg." - Kendra Larson

The entire expansive archive can be found on Instagram @limb_o_rama