IMAGE: Light Bloom #12 (2024)

In my consulting practice, I approach digital media as artifacts of digital mass—cultural and technological forms that gain digital momentum as they are distributed across virtual space. As both a digital native and media strategist, I’ve long been interested in the evolution of digital formats and have ventured into the field to better understand what might emerge as essential with each technological advancement.

A central question guides my inquiry: How is digital media evolving, and how might Caribbean people adapt to this rapid turnover? The innovation driven by Silicon Valley—particularly in artificial intelligence—has surged ahead, often without meaningful inclusion of underrepresented communities. While access to the tools may be increasing, their implications remain elusive. For many in underserved Caribbean regions, these changes can feel less like opportunity and more like intrusion—yet another foreign force reshaping the world on its own terms.

In this context, I developed Image as Field to explore how Caribbean memory is reframed under algorithmic systems. These images are charged fields that can reconstructed as virtually expanded zones . Field as Volume pushes the concept deeper in this direction to interrogate our relationship with what lies behind the screen: the synthetic spaces that power immersion, simulation, and networked presence.

Radiant Fields: Of a Fractal Nature, extends this inquiry into how evolving media forms—especially volumetric technologies like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs)—affect the development of identity, perception, and digital culture in Caribbean communities. NeRFs reconstruct three-dimensional space from arrays of two-dimensional images, offering a generative framework that mirrors how collective memory might itself be reassembled in fragmented or synthetic ways. While the technology is groundbreaking, I am less interested in its commercial potential and more in its symbolic one: how it might be appropriated to render unseen spaces—emotional, cultural, ecological—within a Caribbean worldview.

Through this body of work, I seek to surface interconnected concerns: climate change, AI ethics, and digital transformation—issues that disproportionately affect Caribbean populations but remain abstract within dominant media systems. By reframing these subjects through Caribbean landscapes and digital experiments, I aim to create not only immersive media but reflective portals—spaces that make visible the tension between technological acceleration and cultural equity through liminality and transposition.

Early investigations and research images:

• Research into the development of NeRF imaging facilitated by NVIDIA blogs, Google Deep Mind presentations.

• Early Image Field Studies at local sites: Caura, El Dorado, and Macoya Trinidad, W.I.