Processing…

Understanding our relationship within/out virtual spaces.

Abstraction is important to my consulting work. The creative experimentation helps me unravel convoluted paradigms and make sense of our island realm.

As a digital and media consultant I have personally mused on the virtual abstraction of space behind screens. I imagine media, code, alogrithm as artifacts with digital mass and momentum. As a digital + media consultant I see first hand the effects of technological change on local communities. In the areas of business, productivity, and learning there is an undercurrent of panic surging through collaborative relationships which negatively affect the very same areas of business, productivity, and learning that advancing tech is meant to improve. Disruption of the worst kind. Now with high fidelity relationship between HI and AI, I speculate that digital cultures for under-served and under-represented communities will suffer greater set back due to further exclusion. Deeper fissures will break our fractured pursuit of innovation.

As a Caribbean artist, my earliest worldview was shaped by broadcast television. The internet disrupted that model. Now, AI reshapes it again. This critical shift from analogue perception to machine-assisted seeing spins along an invisible axis I continue to explore. My practice is located here in this split signal: an inquiry into identity, technology, and the visual architectures that frame our understanding of the world.

Sharing what I observe is an ongoing process. The learnings from my artistic pursuit are transmuted into user flows, interfaces, and stories that can be shared with people for improved engagement, interaction, and understanding, respectively. Once in this flow I am better able to bridge gaps in digital transformation efforts, making it more achievable for underserved communities and less of a buzzword.

In this blog I offer selected essays and media experiments as perspective.

Processing…

“Once we project our minds into the void, we expand the territory of our awareness.”

-Dr. Marsha Pearce, Black Light Void (2023)

Much of my work orbits a chiral tension between stream of consciousness and constant stream of content behind screens. Somehow these ideas strangely reflect each other: One flows from within, shaped by memory, emotion, and perception. The other arrives from without, shaped by signal, platform, and algorithm. If interplayed they generate a dynamic axis where image, identity, and interface converge on cultural memory.
Easily accessible technologies have enabled my practice; with each wave of innovation, both my process and thinking evolve. In this state of continual update, I’ve developed an approach that allows the intentionality of craft to cross the interface—into what I perceive as a virtual void. I often picture this void as blue—perhaps unconsciously influenced by the chroma key screens of the 1990s film industry, where impossible realms were constructed in post-production.
In my practice, new media formats are not simply tools but materials—components of a compositional logic where the space behind the screen holds weight, density, and meaning. It becomes a field where ideas accumulate mass and charge. I am particularly drawn to the invisible choreography between viewer and display. What gestures are made in front of the glass, and what informs them from behind? Between this chiral positioning of observer and content I discern that two distinct signals of “animation” emerge: the witness, and its abstracted reflection. Their interaction forms a kaleidoscopic expansion of distortions, luminosity, and spatial densities. In that spin, abstraction recursively returns a refracted image.