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Creation Date
2024
Materials
Oil on panel, paper, paint pen, book cloth, linen thread, polyester sheets, wash cloth, colored pencil, and graphite
Medium
Installation
Project Advisor
Tony Conrad and Benjamin D. Rinehart
Year of Graduation
2024
Rights
Copyright for this work is held by the artist.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
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Artist Statement
The demands of technology are a consuming force. The next email to send or viral video to watch distorts my reality. Technology becomes the lens through which we see and remember the world. The work I create seeks to reconnect myself and others to the present moment through acts of observation and documentation.
Five life-size paintings depict me lying in bed on a computer. Created through composite images, the paintings rely on filtering reality through a phone, glass bottle, and laptop to capture the feeling of dissociation when a screen is in front of me. In conversation with these paintings are a series of artist books that act as tools of reflection and remembrance documenting the time and memories of engaging with or taking a break away from technology. Methodically selecting materials and binding books becomes a meditative practice. As I paint, I tune in to my body’s experiences taking slow controlled breaths as I paint crisp structured highlights or swaying rhythmically as I blend large areas of color. By being present with my body’s everyday experiences, I can disrupt the demands of technology.