In Last Seen, Mr Phantom brings the language of digital communication into the solemn landscape of a cemetery, confronting the strange permanence of our online identities. Gravestones marked with “last seen” times reduce individual lives to the final moments of recorded activity, while a solitary mourner places flowers before an illuminated screen. Its cold blue light cuts through the muted landscape, creating a contemporary memorial within an otherwise traditional scene of remembrance. The work considers how grief has changed in the digital age, where messages, profiles and timestamps can remain long after the person behind them has gone. Last Seen asks what it means to mourn someone whose physical presence has disappeared, while their digital presence remains suspended in time.
