Digital Media
I portray life through a digital lens, emphasizing the intersection of the virtual and the reality. I capture the essence of existence, where daily experiences are often mediated by screens, social media, and technology.
My work reflects an awareness of how digital elements influence perceptions of reality. Through my art, I highlights moments of joy and despair, showcasing personal narratives that resonate within the context of a digital society.
Doom Scrolling
Video, Premiere Pro, AI, Photoshop, Garage band, 2024
Computernal
Adobe Audition, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop
What is computation? It is defined as ‘mathematical calculation’. Computation is at the hand of the human guiding the computer. Human interaction with machines. Humanities intersection with technology. There has never been a documented time period where there is just technology, no influence of humanity. We brought it to life. A life no one has ever raised or interacted with before.
Humans have created languages to speak with computers. We tell them what we want to do and have a dominance over it. But, how much control do we actually have over it? Has it evolved past the state of dom vs sub. Are we the sub?...
My generation, Gen Z, grew up in a new world of technology. As children we learn the alphabet, how to tie our shoes, count to 100, identify animals and the sounds they make. My parents sat in front of me, talked to me, I listened, I calculated the information and learned how their mouths moved, how they spoke, and what to say to a certain question or sentence. A system of code registering in my brain. I imitated my environment. My mother and father wrote the code that brings me here today.
There was a third entity that raised my impressionable mind. I watched the computer, the computer watched me.
Mother
Father
Computer
Maternal
Paternal
Computernal
Having the internet at my fingers was something no previous generation has experienced before.
I filmed videos of myself on photobooth. The camera turned on - I am face to face with the computer.
1…
2…
3…
Go!
The computer tells me to go, I begin my performance.
Instead of seeing my parents face, I see the computer framing my form and I am forced to see my digitized reflection on the screen. Is that me? Or is that an imitation of my “computernal” parent?
I am human, my veins flow with blood, my bones structure my body, my brain signals my limbs to move, my lungs to breathe, and my eyes to blink.
Computers are an extension of the human body. An imitation of the human mind. I am an extension of my parents, an imitation of their minds and DNA. In turn, am I an extension of the computer, a technological machine? My mind has been calculated to depend on technology. I am dependent on the computer, just as I am dependent on my parents.
Humans become computers.
Computers have become human.
A singular entity.
If computer_human == human_computer
print (existence)
Does the computer exist without humans? Can we exist at this point in our lives without the computer?
The computer exists without us thinking of it, without us controlling it.
Our bodies morph into technology as we both conform to our environments.
The computer raised me and I had adjusted to the new technological environment.
What is computation? Mathematical calculation.
Computer’s 1’s and 2’s are our ABC’s. Both our minds calculate our worlds.
Influence of humans and computers calculating each other’s actions and environments. Evolving into one entity.
Blobs
2025, Python, VS Code, Adobe Audition
1N38hunDR3D(Estranged Planetoid)
Adobe Audition, Game Maker, Blender ,2024
Never Born
Photography, 2023
We are uncreated and undestroyed. Our physical bodies occupy space, while our souls occupy the infinite vastness of the universe. This project is personal to me. I went to downtown Cincinnati to feel encompassed in a familiar environment, as I am from Columbus. I grew up going downtown and surrounding myself with art and culture. It has formed my interests in the arts as well as expressing myself in physical ways. I went to downtown Cincinnati to feel that sense of home. Although I was in a city, my mind and consciousness felt so far away. As I stand there in a familiar place, with an unfamiliar sense of space, I begin to feel nostalgia. I am brought back to my grandpa's backyard where there are acres of deer, trees, memories, and golf balls. I see my cousin, who recently passed, standing there surrounded by tall trees, like the tall buildings I am surrounded by in the present. He is radiating sunshine, giving me a sense of warmth. I indulge in this memory, embrace the feelings I gain. Although I am trying to capture that recognizable feeling of home in the city, in a physical place, my conscience takes me to a metaphysical space.
My cousin, Ryan, spoke about how our existence is not only physical, but it carries on into the universe. He wrote a song, and in it he says “we are uncreated and undestroyed. We were never born.” Our physical self decays on this earth, but our souls thrive, live, and carry on after this life. I want this series of photographs to express the dissociation of familiarity and nostalgia. It is not just our physical endeavors that make us who we are, but how our souls imprint on this earth. Our souls carry us through life.
This work has been exhibited at UC DAAP, Tabula Rasa Gallery
(Lacking) Soul of Place
Photography, Adobe Photoshop, 2023
This piece was to portray the soul of a place. In this case, I wanted to portray the lack of soul. I went around campus and took photos of empty classrooms. I wanted to capture the ambiance of emptiness and lack of human experience. Classrooms are where children's souls should be filled and nourished, and instead it has turned into a place to fear, and souls are taken. I wanted to create a series that emphasized the horrendous acts of gun violence, which is turning into a norm in society.
