Every tear, crack, glitch and fracture is revealed and brought to the surface in my work creating a coalescence of content and material. It is this in-between state where physical actuality rips through digitized cultural imagery and creates a new experience. The end result externalizes the inner processes of the digital medium and challenges the previous intent of the various sources, which have been culled from the street, Internet and Hollywood cinema. How do we process the disparate barrage of popular imagery, natural disasters and actual events in contemporary culture? In which ways is this information disseminated and what happens when it collapses in on itself?

     The “Flash Painting” series combines digital print, reflective paint, spray paint and augmented reality. Viewers are allowed to interact with the paintings by taking a picture on their cell phones with the flash on. This action reveals the reflective paint on the surface, while also flattening and digitizing the image once again onto the screens of their phones. Various digital objects such as traffic cones, gasoline containers, bullets, desk lamps and machetes are disparately placed throughout the scene creating a barrage of real and augmented objects exploding towards the viewer.

     This work exists in multiple places at once. Within the gallery space, on digital devices and within social media. It requires each venue in order to be viewed in its entirety similar to our fragmented intake of surrounding content in our media driven culture. Physical experiences and events get flattened down to two dimensional data and hardlined to the internet. I want to explore this intersection by creating playful experiences that network between the physical, virtual and real.