Without The Stars, There Would Be No Us
I build my process-driven compositions by scraping through paint to reveal dynamic light-and-dark layers. Bright gold shapes hint at indeterminate horizons, reflecting the ontology of human consciousness. Ultimately, my works offer a dialectical imaginary for who we are - and could become - in a vast and ever-changing universe.
Reading List: N.K Jemisen, The City We Became; Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth and The Three-Body Trilogy; Chen Xiufan, Waste Tide; Temi Oh, Do You Dream of Terra-Two? Ken Liu, Invisible Planets and Dandelion Dynasty series, Louis Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God, Arturo Escobar, Designs for the Pluriverse, Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Small Abstract Works
I first learned about the many-worlds theory from N.K. Jemisen’s text, The City We Became. The many-worlds theory entertains the possibility that worlds can split in order to achieve varying outcomes, existing alongside the same space and time as the one we experience and see. This mitigates the quandary that only one world can exist at one time–or at the expense of all others.
I was fascinated by how worlds are annihilated simply because some choices are made or not made. One of the characters in Jemisen’s book points out that this violence occurs in our everyday actions. In early 2021, individual choices to not mask up proliferated widespread health or harm. Global entanglement was manifested in an unprecedented way. Thus, Descent imagines the multifaceted landscapes that proliferate beyond our direct experiences. What worlds of hope or despair (of our own making) lie in wait? What would it be like to traverse them?
