My work engages with concepts surrounding information and technology and its relationship to us in the 21st century. I attempt to render the intangible interconnections between information and understanding through visual analogies. The vast nature of the information in which we can receive and know has been expanded into an unfathomable level through the introduction of artificial intelligence. There is no longer a need to seek and learn from exposure - but only a need to prompt and inform yourself within the matter of seconds. This connection to vast amounts of information only adds to the intangible and schizophrenic relationship to our surroundings and understanding shared in a linear and natural way. This also is felt through machine learning such as predictive text and data farmed algorithms used on most devices and websites in which we interact everyday. Not only are we feeding our devices with information about the innards of our minds but we now know what they do to affect us and curate our behaviour, but we can't escape it. Our worlds are built upon being permanently online and it's only expanding further, how do we mediate this space?Through the materials I use I meditate on my own bias as someone who has grown up around these systems, especially as an early career artist with the expectation of attempting to understand and comment on the world. How does my bias allow me to view the world? What effect has it had on my ability to interpret my surroundings? Words are an important aspect of my work as it is a base line rule that we use to express our lives but interestingly is also what can isolate us as humans - depriving our interactions from expression that may only be experienced through body language and emotion. This is what we are starved from in a digital sphere as words are bastardised for advertising and the autonomy of language that once held meaning are now also taken hostage and is hijacked by the surplus of information we are flooded with on a daily basis. My work poses questions and new interpretations. Confronting the viewer with visual renderings of these questions without conclusions. Perhaps, new conclusions can be found this way.
