Rewire

My work combines visual aesthetics, sound, and technology to portray the unpredictable and decaying systems that make up our emotional and physical environments. I use meaningful identification and synchronicity as a lens to question our memory as a reliable narrator. I intend to invoke thought on memory and convey the cyclical emotions of wonder, peace, hopelessness, and loss that continue to be forgotten. Each piece of this body of work is connected or controlled, firing and responding like synapses in the brain to create thoughts and memories that represent who we are.

In the spring of 2021, I was given a box of 35mm slide film and a beat-up slide projector. I dusted off the projector and found hundreds of images, taken by people I did not know. I was fascinated by the beautiful color and texture found on the images. The scratches, marks and degradation represented decades of aging, carousels of memories that no longer belonged to those who experienced and created them.

In my work I want to represent these “lost” slides and other discarded technologies to emphasize their beauty, but also the fleeting nature and unreliability of our memories. I work with older technology by modifying pieces with modern microcontrollers to represent a system of control that connects one thought to another. My goal is to embrace the beautiful and quirky qualities of forgotten technology to create interesting compositions of space, light, and sound.