Artifacts: City of the Forgotten
My work has always been shaped through technology, using machines, a camera, or a computer as intermediaries to create art. This past year, I set out to learn how to paint and draw. I failed, at least in the traditional sense, but failure often leads to something unexpected.
I scanned those rough paintings into the computer, using them as texture maps applied to 3D digital models. The process transformed the paintings into digital objects. The marks and lines created divots and wear, making them look like they had been weathered over time.
They felt like totems from a lost civilization—relics of something left behind, buried under the weight of forgetting. It made me think about history and what happens when we forget the past. What happens when we live in a permanent present? All one has to do is look around to see the consequences.