Self-Portrait in Wind / Autorretrato en Viento Generative digital work, 2025. Ongoing.

This work is a live, autonomous self-portrait in which the artist's image is continuously displaced by real-time wind data retrieved from Valparaíso, Chile, the city where Pizarro was born. Every ten minutes, the sketch queries current wind speed and direction from the OpenWeather API, translating that meteorological data into a generative flow field that physically shifts pixels across the surface of the photograph. The faster the wind blows in Valparaíso, the more aggressively the image fragments and drifts. The work runs continuously, 24 hours a day, and no two moments are identical.

The piece operates at the intersection of expanded photography, generative art, and data poetics. Rather than using data illustratively, the wind functions as a direct physical force an invisible hand reaching across geography to act upon the image of the body. The self-portrait becomes unstable, never fully resolving, always in the process of being displaced. Overlaid on the image, the local time in Valparaíso marks each moment of the work's unfolding, anchoring the viewer to a specific place and its atmospheric conditions in real time.

Conceptually, Self-Portrait in Wind continues Pizarro's sustained investigation into displacement, identity, and the body's relationship to origin. Living between geographies, the artist turns to environmental data as a form of intimate communication, the wind of the place she left carries the trace of distance and persistence, inscribing itself into the image of who she has become. The work is accessible as a live link, existing simultaneously as image, performance, and archive.

Link to Live Artwork https://laylapizarroselfportrait2025.netlify.app/