"Back in the days when procedural arts were all the hype, there was a certain gloom surrounding the author mythos and its imminent death. With algorithms taking the place of the artisan and the users adding the untamed spark to an, otherwise, self-produced oeuvre, the authors seemed displaced to the spot of mere participants or prophets of the machine. Luckily, the trend was just another trend and, as such, turned out to be yet another element to consider when pondering around art.
Leannes scanning experiments play with these ideas. Her works are the testimony of her own crime: playing with moving objects around a scanner, she displays the distorted images that result from these pseudo-accidents. The tyrant masterful hand that crafted her previous series of dioramas (little, neurotically perfect worlds, on their own right), now recedes into the experimental unpredictiveness of her new method. There is still an author and a machine, but none of them can create her works without the other.
The results are marvelous series of moiré patterned stains, still images of moving CDs, plastic, paper or her own hair. Introducing an intentional glitch on working replicating machine, she reintroduces chaos and surprise into the pictures."