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process stills from the video piece i’m currently working on, tentatively called rly got a feelin

more process stills

workin on an intimate lil video piece

im just clownin around

spent 45 minutes on hold w my isp today trying to restore internet service after an outage and i was losing my mind so i made this

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dataerase

lovers, 2016

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process work

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feels like we’re floating (2016) explores eros from a posthuman perspective. love is a dynamical system, influenced by both time and space. however, in a digital age, emotional embodiment is complicated by pervasive intangible factors. this leads one to question if the durational presence of one or more bodies within a given space is necessary for the creation of interpersonal love. when physical bodies are joined by both time and space, their spiritual connection is strengthened. when these forms are represented digitally, the impact of this spiritual connection is amplified.

since initiating a romantic relationship with my partner, i have become increasingly in touch with my physical body. while laying in bed one night i was, for the first time in my life, acutely aware that beneath my flesh, my organs were contained within a three-dimensional structure bound by bones. a single moment of talking to someone i love about my rib cage made my physical reality more evident than decades of tactile engagement with skeletons with rib cages. it became evident to me that sensory negotiation is often a secondary means of communication. information, regardless of whether its content is physical, may not be best transmitted physically, but psychically.

feels like we’re floating attempts to dismantle the jungian eros/logos dichotomy by employing the procedures of 3d scanning, modelling, and animation as tools of emotional expression. whether or not mathematical translations of physical forms accurately communicate abstract relationships between said forms, the act of attempting such is in itself an embodied emotional experience. by approximating intangible realities through algorithmic processes, emotion is rationalized and, thus, objectively validated. by re-enacting our physical and psychic reality digitally, my partner and i become an embodied entity.

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translating the digital to physical... this was difficult... i decided to just project the schiele forms and trace them onto my painted panel with a micron pen and then go over it with india ink, paint, and acrylic polymer... final image is the finished painting! first painting i’ve ever done! the polymer looks less like marble than the sanded acrylic did, but it does look eerily similar to the stone textures in photoshop...

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