EERIE ME is a series of interactive sculptures that explore the relationship between a creation and its creator. They are creatures that embody human and nonhuman appearances.

The artist explores ways to hack and modify toys so that they become more or less human, giving them personal traits. The creatures dig deep down into the world of uncanniness. The objects themselves do not yet have an intelligence of their own. They live based on the spectators’ interactions.

The project is a comment on the future of technology. Humans are not immortal, but the tales of our desire and obsession with youth and immortality go back in history. Tales of immortal beings, and of means through which humans too can cheat death are part of mythologies worldwide. Great minds have spent lifetimes seeking a cure for death, and today our hopes have turned to digital technologies. The idea is that these technologies may promise us a form of immortality. It might transpire in the future that we will have the power to retain our consciousness and find a new shell for it, and thereby build a new body to trap our ghost forever. The artist tries to add a part of herself – her material past and memories – into these toys. The toy as a totem, contrived through the artist’s memories, overcomes the limited social perceptions of the toy’s utility and leaves the ghost of these memories for the future, by capturing it in forms from her personal past.