Art history, ideas, thoughts, and current events packaged into JPEGs and MPEGs. These digital and physical artworks tap into pop culture, digital media, consumerism marketing, and traditional art forms to create a dialogue about our current cultural landscape. Packaging and labeling, AI, 3D lidar, screengrabbed effects, and targeted advertisements are a few content sources. The imagery includes quick snapshots I take while working as an electrician throughout Los Angeles. Images, videos, and text are used similarly to passages from a poem. I set my own aesthetic biases aside and let the people, materials, and environment guide much of my work's decision making. Quickly moving through my initial ideas and ignoring my aesthetic reasoning creates a more complex outcome. Insight comes from these unforeseen consequences and conversations. They combine to document my surroundings in this constant flow between sense, nonsense, and distractions; a "testament to a very real past, both natural and cultural." (01)
(01) Odell, Jenny. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Melville House, 2021.