Today we’d like to introduce you to Neville Greene.
Hi Neville, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
Going with the flow and having a supportive community. My ideas and work has been something I used to only keep to myself, but once I started sharing it opened up so many doors and opportunities. After exploring different mediums and understanding what calls to I just follow it through. The creative scene in San Diego is rich and diverse, immersing myself to completely different and similar interests and ideas have been so influential.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Oh yes, on top of the past traumas, more recently i’ve gone through a major break up, lost my job and even losing my apartment in less than a year. I think my ability to overcome, reach out for help and handle these setbacks made me more confident in the work I am doing.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
As a scanographer living and working in San Diego, my practice is rooted in the tactile and the overlooked. I use a flatbed scanner as both a camera and a canvas, drawn to its ability to capture detail with clinical precision and an almost meditative stillness. My work explores the physicality of digital culture—primarily through the scanning of video game media: cartridges, discs, manuals, cases—objects often dismissed as disposable or merely functional, yet deeply tied to memory, identity, and cultural nostalgia.
Alongside these curated relics of interactive entertainment, I scan the surfaces of San Diego itself. Textures of sidewalks, stucco walls, bus stops, skate scuffs, palm bark, and rusted signage become part of my visual archive—each surface a quiet witness to the movement and memory embedded in the city. Through this process, I attempt to capture the material language of a place often flattened by postcard aesthetics and tourism. My work is about presence and preservation—of physical media in a digital age, of Black identity in subcultures not often associated with it, and of the often-overlooked surfaces that shape our lived environments. The scanner becomes a tool of both intimacy and exposure, rendering every dust speck, fingerprint, and scratch with equal importance.
In terms of your work and the industry, what are some of the changes you are expecting to see over the next five to ten years?
I think as we are in this digital age of streaming, downloadable content and social media I believe that we will have even less physical media or physical work. A big shift will be more appreciation for what we have in our natural world.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: nehvul
