Souvenirs
I am currently exploring the reversion of stylized 3D digital aesthetics to analog as a means of examining who is augmenting who in reality-informed generative design and how the greater role technology plays in our lives the further removed from nature we become. This in-progress body of work includes a series of altered Polaroids and canvas prints that occupy the space between captured reality and the imagined and the nostalgic within the new. Images of nature are embellished with synthetic biomorphic constellations creating hybrid objects as if souvenirs from instantly obsolete geologies in the vastness of simulated archetypes. Furthermore, the digital prints on paper inact the reduplicative process of printing photographs taken of photographs set against distorted photographic backgrounds speaking to the latent incestuous landscape of AI as it will eventually mine data that includes its own constructs effectively replicating the replicated.
Note: Asterik indicates photographic print in exhibit at Downtown Art Center