COLOR

Yellow And "Lost"

When I think about work that contradicts the definition of the color it embodies, I think of the piece Lost I created in 2018. Outside of the image, the color yellow has been often represented as that embodying joy and happiness. Emojis and the quick dopamine release they cause come to mind as I think of yellow. Yet in Cabinet Magazine, they begin to point out the other representations of this color I fail to think about that concurrently embody what I think the subject in this image is further emphasizing; confusion, weariness and one so “bright it doesn’t let its guard down.” The gaze that the subject presents towards the camera is self-reflective and the simultaneous facial expression is one that denies the notions of happiness presented by the loud and alarming color. In the article, they resonate with the idea of yellow being a color that asks its audience to understand before they opine. This image represents a moment of dread and lack of clarity, as the subject’s contemplative state overtakes any notion of pleasure within yellow’s immediate reading; Instead reminding us of this secondary reading of yellow as one that tells us to further try to understand.

NEWSPAPER PROJECT

How do we see the constant glorification and attention paid to violence and fear throughout the news? In my Newspaper series I look into how our politics have increased violent acts within the United States and outside as power is given to governmental protection figures. From the gun violence and overuse of power both in the US and Hong Kong by the police, to the islamophobia which extremists groups foster within the ignorant, news sources continuously use these provoking issues to increase readership. In just one article of The New York Times, we find these conversations which instead of informing society, further polarize it. In the podcast “The last Newspaper. Artists in Conversation” Aleksandra Mir mentions this way of workin g as a “intervention so we can see more clearly what is already there.’ With media printing are and more stories at once a lot of meaning is loss. Not only that, but the type off media that is being represented can say a lot about the publisher and their perspective and through curating the newspaper, the artist can drive forward a purpose to emphasize what the newspaper may purposely dwell little on, even within their cover stories. In my experience this way of working allowed me to dwell on the basic issues that I feel are being dismissed such as commonalities of violence within these articles and the way that politics influences it through law,

NY ART BOOK FAIR

From seeing Nan Goldin’s images, speaking with the publisher of “Queer Archive” & seeing the different publications of attention Magazine, the NY Art Book fair felt like a good reminder of what the future can look like. As I proceed into my career within the realm of documenting queer history, alike Goldin, I hope to be able to work with publishers such as Matte Magazine and Queer archive who are actively recording the visual history of queer representation and art.The intersectional approcahes of these artists within the identities of queer people actively engage in the conversations of power within societal structures I hope to tackle. Matte Magazine's engagement as an instituion and their openness to inclusion and variation within the subject matter they publish makes the idea of collaboration within the near future attractive.

THE LIBRARY OF BABEL & THE WORLD-WIDE WEB

The Library of Babel and The World-Wide Web are articles that emphasize the connection between libraries and the internet as sources of information whose load seems infinite yet, in fact do have a cap towards their information. While the hexagonal stacks within the library serve as the categorizing and hosting system this translates to server between the internet and how they separate information between the websites. Alike the binary in code, the library also uses MVC as their way to connect all of the texts within a common language. The universality of the code allows for the communication within the different mediums as they both aim at providing and serving information.

LINE PROJECT

Chaos In Conversation

How do we perceive human interaction and attention as we observe each other’s use of technology while going through conversations? In “Chaos In Conversation” I went on a search to take an analytical approach through art on how our attention spans shifts and how the prevalent movements of our body move in a cyclical way. In Michael de Certau’s “Walking In The City” he mentions New York as a city that has “never learned the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts,” which helps propose the question of what happens when a human looks at their past and analyzes their actions as a way to better themselves as a person? All the pieces come from observations made whilst conversing with friends from an individual sense to a group approach where each person’s actions gets lost behind the other. Each color within a piece represents a different character in motion and their response to the world around them. Part 5 of the series becomes the conclusive part of the storyline as it witnesses all of the characters going through the motions at once and experiencing each other. Chaos In Conversation forms a question on respect as a transaction amidst the cultivation of relationships.