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BRAINFOREST. 2021.

3'x2'x7" Custom Built Acrylic Display Case. Projected Video & Audio. Old Smartphones and Synthetic Mesh Fabric.

Brainforest is an audiovisual installation which incorporates appropriated sound and imagery in the context of a physical, synthetic terrarium. This source material, drawn from screen captures and cutouts from my own media footprint, is displaced and distorted several times over through the means of inkjet scanners, synthesizers and editing techniques in Photoshop. The piece intends to encapsulate and provide a sensory experience for brain fog, confusion and over stimulation in the context of contemporary media consumption.

"In Between Circles". 2021

“In Between Circles” is an audiovisual installation comprising stop motion sequences and sounds representing my own digital footprint in discussion with topics of media assault and paralysis, displacement of self and the disembodied/ in betweenness of natural and digital. It is essentially the first of the later peice, "BrainForest". The visual sequences draw from a varied mix of personal internet tabs and phone screen/ social media captures, commercials, magazine and newspaper cutouts, and personal photos. A lot of the content ranged from marketing imagery and advertisements, current news stories and videos, pornography, absurd internet trends and memes, and snippets from celebrity social media posts. All of this imagery is transcribed through a scanner, an important aspect in terms of communicating displacement. Everything is then heavily layered, compressed and distorted to the point of abstraction together in Photoshop. Similarly, the sound is sourced from personal field recordings, commercial soundtracks, videos found on different social media apps, and stills from the stop motion sequences converted into audio files. Some of these audio sources are also processed through a granular synthesizer in VCV Rack, another layer of displacing and processing audio files into unfamiliar/ possibly unfit realms. Additionally, different pieces of fabric and translucent materials are hung in the space to further distort the imagery on display and represent its transcription into a pixelated realm. They also serve to disorient the viewer even further. Lastly, different monitors such as the analog television, the flat screen monitor and the iPhone’s and iPad’s trace a sort of genealogy of video and image technologies. Overall, the piece seeks to immerse the viewer in this barrage of media in order to illustrate the uneasy and confusing interplay between living on and offline in contemporary times and question any meaning or significance behind the loops and echo chambers we find ourselves in.

Sanctity of Illusions. 2018. Front View
Sanctity of Illusions. 2018. Left Side View

"MoodBoard"

2018

Edited stock images and screenshots hung inside a 12"x12"x8" display case with miscellaneous litter and soil extracted from the Miracle Mile. 

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Cravings Agenda. 2019
Cravings Agenda. 2019
Cravings Agenda. 2019

"Cravings Agenda". 2019.

Silkscreen on Canvas and Synthetic Polyester featuring custom graphics, appropriated diagrams and imagery from US Military pamphlets and screenshots from Hollywood films depicting apocalyptic disaster. Work discusses relationships between hyper stimulation, the fetishization of the US military and fear of extinction.

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