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Prints made from oily residue left on iPad screens when using apps
Artists want to bring together ‘physical and virtual worlds’
Images are available on acrylic prints and iPhone cases

By Victoria Woollaston

PUBLISHED: 07:32 EST, 30 April 2013 | UPDATED: 08:09 EST, 30 April 2013

Artists from the US have used iPads to create a series of paintings showing imprints made by finger swipes and smudges.

For each painting in the Invisible Hieroglyphics collection, New York artist Andre Woolery, with Texas designer Victor Abijaoudi opened an iPad app, including Mail, Angry Birds, Facebook, Twitter, Paper Toss and more.

They then used the apps like normal, leaving oily finger swipes and smudges on the screen.

This acrylic print shows the finger swipes left on the iPad screen when playing Paper Toss. You have to fling balls of paper, from the right, into a bin. You can change the direction by pressing the ball as it flies

This print, which was made from the finger swipes on the Mail app, show the marks left on the screen from typing, selecting a paragraph of text, and moving the cursor around a message

This print shows the fingers swipes and smudges left on the screen when playing Temple Run. The game was originally played with the iPad in portrait and rotated when printed

This print shows the finger swipes and smudges left on the screen when playing Temple Run. The game was originally played with the iPad in portrait and rotated when printed

When the artists used Facebook, their smudges and swipes covered almost the entire screen. The fingerprints show clicks on individual posts and the swipes show the artist flicking through a photo gallery

These oily smudges tracked where the artists clicked and pressed while using individual apps.

Using satin paper, Woolery and Abijaoudi could then absorb and extract the oil left on the screen.

The patterns created by their fingers were then left on the paper.

Using acrylic paints, these patterns were recreated and printed onto acrylic canvases and iPhone cases.

Prints can be ordered in various colours, monochrome, as well as ’3 D appearance ‘.

The Angry Birds game is depicted in this print. The left-hand smudges and swipes show where the birds are flung from. The dots are where the artist hit the screen to make the bird divide into three

This photo shows the Angry Birds game from the above print, in action, with the smudges highlighted in turquoise

The left picture shows the print created by playing the Angry Birds game in the right-hand image

Fruit Ninja is being played in this painting, with the knife swipes shown in the smudges on the right

You can see the Fruit Ninja game being played in the background, with the oil print over the top

The Fruit Ninja game is being played in this set of images, with the finished print on the left

The artists wanted to show the connection between the physical and digital world.

Woolery said: ‘As the world becomes more digital, we pull further away from an analog, handcrafted world. However, the one remaining human component of the digital experience is touch.

‘Our hands have become the communication conduit through devices with a series of taps, swipes, and pushes. Left behind are the oil-stained remains of finger smudges on a screen. ‘

Abijaoui added: ‘Everyone is creative and everyone creates. Even if just with your fingers as you check your email. ‘