This piece is an ethereal world born from the many places I once inhabited. Creating this world helped me navigate the trauma of frequent moves during my young adulthood. While making this work, I also considered the indigenous people who originally occupied these spaces—those whose land we stole to form all of the U.S. states where I’ve lived. I used a mixture of physical media, digital painting, creative code, and glitched photographs of the spaces to create this piece.
media:
Digital Mixed Media—photography, glitched photography, digital painting, and JavaScript
award:
Best in Show Award — “Art Inspired” at Iowa State University
exhibitions:
“Art Inspired” at Iowa State University; one of 39 works chosen from 300+ entries
“5th Annual Colorful Abstractions Exhibition” at Fusion Art; one of 210 pieces chosen from 559 entries