Inspired by experimental cinema and closely entwined with inter-mediality, I am interested in the medium of light in addition to sound and as my interest in analog film animation grew, so did my questions on the purpose of digital technology in my practice. I slowly began extending into the multi-media/anti-disciplinary approach I have today which, inspired by the concepts of Marshall McLuhan, seeks to unmask the dichotomies of media. Although my practice centers around music, I am fascinated by dance, cinema, puppetry, roadblocks, and many other things. I believe the peripheral hallucinations of a set goal are what bring mystery to it and I indulge in those things that disappear before being understood. My hope is that by questioning the plurality of media, society and the individual, I can internally identify a more comprehensive view of human behavior which relates to the organic within and mends our relationship with all parts of ourselves. 

I was born into this world as more than just a story and I am more than what I am not. I am neither son nor daughter, sister nor brother, I am just human enough to have a name yet so distant from it that it represents; nothing. What I know extends only to the core of the earth and that is what constitutes my identity. I am the growth of a rock into life and back into rock. I was born in Maghen and I will die within its walls.

CURRENT PRACTICE

My current practice revolves around literary world building serving as a primary source of inspiration for the creation of interactive systems that reflect their fictive environments. The narrative concepts around which these systems are built serve to represent technology as “historical artifacts'' rather than mere utilities, fostering narrative immersion and exploring alternative futures inherent to these technologies. These concepts are also inevitably tied into today’s issues, serving as an outlet for activism within the rigidity of the institutional enclosure.

In response to the current context of a global environmental and social crisis, I find it imperative in my practice to repurpose “obsolete” technology and utilize recycled materials as symbols of resistance against overconsumption and capitalist notions of progress. In place of these beliefs, my practice tends to spirituality and my compositional approach is heavily influenced by all practices directed towards God, taking samples from Hindu chants and Alice Coltrane while inspiring myself from texts that date as far back as the Enuma Eilish. Juxtaposed with my pragmatic material based approach, my goal in questioning the role of media on our social infrastructure can also be understood as a critical reflection on the interaction between the Creator and the Created. 

At once pushing and pulling against the bond which holds our ego from the limitless, drawing a tension by giving in to what is lost, retrieving yourself from flesh.