LIGHT EXPERIMENTS : 2024 / 2025
This century belongs to light. Fiat Lux!
— Lazlo Maholy-Nagy
Light dances through our lives with ethereal grace, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. Light is nature’s most profound artist…painting, sculpting, and breathing life into each surface it touches, reminding us that beauty often lies not in what we see, but in how we see it.
Tinted acrylic disks, embedded in sand-blasted glass illuminated with tinted LED light discs.
CALLIEX2 : 2023 / 2024
Exploration of the concept of modern portraiture and the traditional confines of the genre.
Diptych portrait // printed acrylic layer, with multiple laser-cut sheets of geometric patterns placed inside custom matte plexiglass boxes. Optional back projection lighting not shown in the image above.
FILM LEADER REMIX VIDEOS : 2023
FILM LEADER REMIX is an interactive program designed by S8, inspired by Kuleshov's constructivist experiments; new associations and meanings are formed by the temporal relationship of one image to another.
The application encourages the user to create abstract, visual configurations by dragging and dropping tiny Quicktime movies from a collection of digital film leader clips. A video of this interactive process is provided below.
In the video above, film clips are displayed on three monitors, rendering a large-scale projection of abstract compilations.
FILM LEADER REMIX : Footage of a user arranging the clips to form abstract assemblages.
CIRCLEX3 : 2022
Hypnotic high-definition circle patterns displayed on three 15” square video monitors. The project is an homage to Marcel Duchamp’s Anémic Cinema.
Duchamp's Anémic Cinéma (1926) is a dizzying, exploration of movement and visual perception. His abstract short films, questioned traditional cinematic storytelling and celebrate the inherent instability of perception itself, reflecting the artist's broader Dadaist critique of established norms and artistic conventions.
APSIS (( ABSENCE : 2025
Nae man can tether time or tide
— Robert Burns
Memory fades, must be remembered.
Perishing be?
— Walter De La Mare
Remembering a loved one is an act of respect. Remembering is a lifeline, a connection that transcends the loss of memory, allowing love, dignity, and a sense of continuity to prevail, even in the face of neurological decline. Remembering is a testament to the enduring power of human connection.
The importance of remembering my father, transcends mere sentimentality. In the final years of his life, Parkinson’s related dementia, robbed him of his memories. It was a battle against the relentless tide of forgetting, a fight for the very essence of who he was — a steady unraveling of self.
For those observing someone lose their memory, it is an agonizing slow watch as the person you love, slips away. It is the heartbreaking experience of witnessing their confusion, their frustration, and their inability to recognize you, to recall shared history, or to participate in the present. It's a kind of grief lived in slow motion. You are simultaneously present in the fading relationship, forced to reconcile the person they once were with the person they are becoming. This sadness is intensified by the knowledge that you will one day recall their memories for both of you and each forgotten detail is a sharp reminder of what has been lost…
APSIS (( ABSENCE represents the continuation of efforts to visualize and express themes of time, loss, metaphysical borders, and the fragility of memory. Within the installation, the triptych, mirrors my father’s own fading presence and is combined with looping, projected videos of ocean tides and lunar phases. The waxing and waning lunar orb denotes the passage of time and the impermanence of memory. Luminous and dense, the moon is a blank projection screen for imaginings, and lost echoes of inner worlds and outer space, summoning the infinite and the intimate. Where elusive memories, reminiscent of the tide’s current, ebb and flow until time erodes each remembrance, like sand beneath the force of a wave.
APSIS (( ABSENCE is dedicated to my sister, Robin, who fought valiantly to keep my father safe during his final years.
