Self-portrait (2022)
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.
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. It is here, in the split signal, that my practice locates itself: an inquiry into identity, technology, and the visual architectures that frame our understanding of the world.