QUARANTINE STUDIES

In the last four months, I have been trying to step out of my scope of practice and start playing with new materials. My goal was to take my work out of the sterile computer screen, gallery and studio setting and bring it a step closer to reality. I wanted the digital to become a part of the real - absorbed by conventional mediums. I have run the work through multiple cycles of digital to analog and back. The work has been able to survive in the vacuum of digital and translate into conventional materials, and can be interacted with, or in this case, destroyed.

This piece is part of an ongoing series of works where I apply digital prints onto acrylic paint; the paint itself acts as the medium. An image is stamped onto the acrylic surface and a Plexiglas plate is then applied for structural integrity.

I try to situate my sculptures in the context of an existing reality. So much of art is isolated and segregated from the real world — sheltered in the sterile environment of a gallery. My work changes its meaning depending on the context it is placed in. The more out of context my work is, the more alien it appears to be.