video installation
A contemplation of the various identities that live within us – not all of them fully realised, and not all of them fully wanted. This work has been developed in fulfillment of the Venice Fellowship Programme.
Maze
a digital puppet show
a digital puppet show
An ongoing series of moving-image works that contemplate identity and inequality. This series examines human society like a nature documentary – flipping the gaze on our very selves.
These works attempt to represent how lineages of experiences are created over time and manifest in the present as various forms of inequality. The shift in the gaze allows me to show that, while we may take the societies that we built as solemn and absolute, they are infact, made-up, and somewhat silly. I use ridiculous looking 3D puppets animated with exaggerated childish movements to further accentuate how silly our societal rituals can be.
Spot the Human
an existential inquiry
an existential inquiry
This is an experimental project that I am developing for the Venice Fellowship 2022. This project is rooted, again, in interrogating the relationship between identity and experience. It has been manifesting in different interactive forms – drawing on various aspects of my practice and a variety of skills. This project truly embodies the idea of 'research as practice' because, with every new stage of inquiry, it morphs into a different being and new ideas for making art present themselves. And though I can now see a final work of art emerging from this project, the journey has been very rich – both intellectually and emotionally.
Half-Mile Radius
This is a short moving image work I am making for the SE London Archive. The work explores gentrification by looking at the environs changing within a half-mile radius of Lewisham station. This work is still being edited. It will be shown at Livesey Exchange in Peckham from 1st July to 3rd July.
The Algorithm Doesn't Like My Art, So Here's My Face Instead
a desperate attempt to rig the system
a desperate attempt to rig the system
Instagram's algorithm is excruciatingly anti-art. The algorithm is designed to boost faces more than anything else, which is frustrating when you only use it to share art. Using my own face, I created a series of images that keeps the basic structure of a face. But I altered the photos to see if I could trick the algorithm into boosting my art. It worked.
Collaging Colonialism
thinking through pictures
thinking through pictures
A series of works considering different aspects of colonialism. This series emerged from the the digital collage movement #februllage, which ran this February, like #inktober runs in October. Using daily prompts, I tried to sharpen my photoshop skills and my imagination. I found myself making images about the same themes that preoccupy my practice.