- CollegeChelsea College of Arts
- CourseBA (Hons) Fine Art
- Graduation year2023
An installation displaying an animation and the distribution of a comic. Touching on themes of transhumanism and posthumanism, the world I build serves as both an inquiry into an imaginary distant future and a direct commentary of the contemporary.
The contrast between the use of graphite and ink alongside computer graphics and video capture is emblematic of the tension amidst new dimensions achieved through technology, parallel to an instinctive drive towards traditional materiality.
The idea for the story came from the sentiment that material making knowledge should be free to access and that oftentimes we are alienated from this knowledge in order to be sold commodities.
Final work
PillHead and GearGreaseman
Animation montage using Blender and video capture. The aim was to bring an additional layer of time displacement through visual contrast.
A5 comic zines available to take during show. Risograph print on 100% recycled paper.
Research and process
World Building Conception
Having been a fan of dystopian works my whole life and yet being critical of the genre for its apathy towards the possibility of a better world, I questioned the Utopia/Dystopia dichotomy and the role of fictional narratives in transmitting meanings and influencing optimism/ pessimism in its audience especially in the light of a potential climate collapse.
I started conceptualising a far away post apocalyptic landscape called Mundi Ferox (feral world) in which traces of current life are minute and the land is changed beyond recognition. My characters are influenced by transhumanist and posthumanist ideas, and the aesthetics of video games and technology as well as the idea of the past having lasting influences.
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