Work from 2020
Going to my first electronic show, I had the feeling of being in an intangibly massive space. The lights, projections, screens, and smoke came together to construct an experience that felt unreal. Defining this space was the creation of a feeling of connectivity brought about by the artists and shared with the crowd. Yet this new realm brought before me, rooted in reality, was a space I would never be able to return to.
These surreal environments are largely the result of the interplay between lights and objects. I pursued work that aimed to evoke a similar environment, removed from direct experience and frozen within a photo.
For some of this work, imagery from modern music production was run through an audio processor. Allowing the sound to redefine the space, I took these new representations and projected them onto my crafted environments. Honing in this process, modern projection mapping became integrated into most of the work.
During the making of these spaces I am actively engaged in the creation of my own glass and metal elements to project onto. Initially the projection placements were relatively random as I attempted to find the most effective angles to shoot from. The newer work was set up with a viewer’s perspective in mind beforehand. As a result, the crafted environments themselves became a part of the body of work. Actively engaging in the transformation of a space, these acts are connected to the moments that originally impacted me.
Illuminated Darkness
Below is video documentation of a glass installation from my thesis show in 2020. The gallery was not open to the public as it was at the start of the pandemic.
Before fabricating my own glass and metal objects to project onto, the process focused instead on extensive documentation of a space. Afterwards I would run the images through an audio processor, collecting the digital artifacts to collage together within a Photoshop document. Returning to the space at night with a projector, I would open the document and overlay it across the room. The result was an image of a room that looked highly edited, but was not actually edited at all.
