Dana’s work serves as an exploration of image dissemination, value systems, everyday spaces, and recesses of the internet in a time immediately before its image saturation where platforms and tools like Flickr, Google, Bing, Twitch, 4chan, and Reddit, Instagram and tumblr inundating our collective digital consciousness.

In response to this overwhelming digital saturation, Slijboom creates low-resolution, pixelated digital renders using oil painting techniques. This approach reflects a tension between the instantaneous nature of digital creation and the slow drying process of oil paint. Slijboom’s works often feature repetitive forms with subtle variations, each outlined by a distinct perimeter of oil paint, accentuating the contrast between digital and traditional mediums.

The subjects depicted often serve as simplistic visual cues, portraying archetypal symbols, icons or landscapes. The resulting aesthetic, reminiscent of fragmented lo-res JPEGs, employs a limited color palette to achieve graphic spatial distortion within the painted surface. Through stripped-down imagery, flat color planes, and ambiguous focal points, Dana seeks to convey narratives that oscillate between humor and unease, challenging viewers to confront the complexities of modern visual culture by holding up a mirror of an immediate, perhaps simpler, past.