I found it difficult to force a glitch in the image files I used. Is something denying me to access to freedom? I started with an image from the internet, something I have not saved locally. A visual I had not seen, no plans for controlled alterations. And yet the image refused to be broken in a meaningful way. (Meaningful to whom?) I learned from sources online to break it in the middle and towards the end. Perhaps a more discreet attempt, coming in from the back door. That worked better, but somehow still not enough. What am I looking for? Multiple failed attempts and I have 1 workable glitch.
Ah wait! Upon uploading the attempts, I see I was successful in introducing glitches in many of them. How did I miss that? Did my technological window trick me into believing I had failed?
Regardless, I then resorted to the web. Messing with Inspector felt limited too. For the most part, everything feels built to withstand glitches. No room for error. Or perhaps I was the one with no room for error? What am I looking for? Turning off boundaries on webpages seemed to work somewhat. What happens to text when we make its room an error? It seems, though, when built responsively, it resets to conform. The elasticity of the web has gotten strong perhaps.
Manual methods it is. Overprints feel like too easy of a method, but satisfyingly the most effective. I mostly played with scans, moving the text around on the scan bed. No plan other than to hope for a mess. And what a satisfying mess it was. I wonder why it feels easier to find glitches in manual manipulation. Does the organic retain room for error purposefully? Does technology evolve to eliminate glitches? And where do we position ourselves as a technological being in the cosmos?
Perhaps we simply only try.