Selected Videography and Projections
Burlap Sack and Chains, Distance, Passion 1
2023 Variable Sizes
Total: 2 minutes 35 seconds
Series of Video Art
These three videos pieces are part of and ongoing series that investigate body dysmorphia as it intersects with gender expectations and the viscus cycle of late stage capitalism. The complex visuals push the ideas of compressed storytelling which experiments with how much narrative can be conveyed in a short amount of time.
Machina Prōductus
2023 Variable Sizes
16 minutes 3 seconds
Video Art
“Machina Prōductus” (2023) explores how machines and aesthetic systems that we engage with on a daily basis are tied to strict notions traditionalistic values, religion, and Late-Stage-Capitalism. It seeks to expose, plainly, how these intersecting systems only ever view human life is product. This could be product in the sense of creating an ideal worker, follower, or in the religious-gendered sense, and effective provider/babymaker.
“Machina Prōductus” (2023) pushes the aforementioned ideas to an extreme by placing the viewer into a reality where the connections between these systems are explicit and followed. The Audio/Video component of this piece follows the process of the “Final Sanctification” of an initiate in this machine/product focused religion. The initiate is placed into a machine where everything that would make them unproductive in regard to emotion, feeling, personal boundaries, and empathy are lobotomized. The intended outcome of this ritual is complete submission; however, this machine is not 100 percent effective, and sometimes a strong-willed and rebellious can potentially survive the machine with their humanity intact.
The other portion of this piece is an exploration of how aesthetic systems in the west view humans as product to perfected as well. Included with this portrait are ten photo composites that show how Adobe’s Photoshop, the most popular and most widely used photo manipulation software, attempts “perfect” people. These ten composites started with a simple color-correction and then were only modified with the spot-heal tool, Photoshop’s solution to human “blemishes.” Some of the composites have been layered on top of each other to see how final results compare.
Photo Composite Using Photoshop Spot Heal
Photo Composite Using Photoshop Spot Heal
Photo Composite Using Photoshop Spot Heal
Photo Composite Using Photoshop Spot Heal
A Ritual for Pacifism
2022
Variable Sizes
9 minutes 40 seconds
Projection Mapping
This projection is explores the concept of ritual and rite of passage through the subversion of those concepts. Here, the this ritual does not contain or prepare for violence, but rather the opposite.
It's Okay to Cry
2021
1080x1920p
4 minutes 7 seconds
Single Channel Video
This video explores the emerging properties in technology that can aide deconstruction of extremist ideologies.
Stage 1: Rejection and De-Conversion
2020
4096 × 3112p
2 minutes 16 seconds
Single-Channel Video
This video explores the initial mental and subconscious experience of de-conversion from Christianity. Using symbols and imagery very familiar to many Christians in the Southwest USA, it begins the narrative of its series in way that could be described harsh, immediate, and destructive. These traits of the video reflect the very subject matter being explored within the piece. Part of the "Stages of Death and Rebirth Series."
Stage 2: Knowledge, Realizations, and the Beginning of Excess
2020
4096 × 3112p
3 minutes 37 seconds
Single-Channel Video
This video takes the narrative of the video series in its intended direction. The piece directly references the representation of knowledge and morality through the consumption of the Christian Bible. Then, using this representation, the piece explores the nature of knowledge and morality especially the in context of post-de-conversion. Part of the "Stages of Death and Rebirth Series."
Stage 3: Meaninglessness, Excess Compounded, and Addiction Manifested
2020
4096 × 3112p
3 minutes 5 seconds
Single-Channel Video
While the previous video investigated knowledge in post-de-conversion context, this video explores nature sensual pursuits in the same context. It utilizes the concept of “sinful” human nature being represented by flesh in the Christian Bible. Part of the "Stages of Death and Rebirth Series."
Stage 4: Many Types of Death
2020
4096 × 3112p
6 minutes 30 seconds
Single-Channel Video
This video nears the climax of the series. Using symbols from both Buddhism and Christianity of death and rebirth. It explores the non-physical forms of death we experience — deaths of ideology, belief, and experience. Part of the "Stages of Death and Rebirth Series."
Stage 5: The Zenith of the Void
2020
4096 × 3112p
2 minutes 8 seconds
Single-Channel Video
Serving as the climax to the “Stages” series, this piece explores both the highest and lowest point of a de-conversion experience. A point filled juxtapositions and existential crisis of morals, spirituality and more. Part of the "Stages of Death and Rebirth Series."
Stage 6: Convalescence and Limbo
2020
4096 × 3112p
5 minutes
Single-Channel Video
Occurring after the climax of the series it explores the purgatory-like and limbo-inducing experiences following an existential crisis. This is as well as the personal healing experiences following these crises. Part of the "Stages of Death and Rebirth Series."
Stage 7: Many Types of Rebirth
2020
4096 × 3112p
6 minutes
Single-Channel Video
This piece, acts as a mirror piece to “Stage 6: Many Types of Death.” It explores the same themes of ideology, belief, and experience. However, these themes are approached through the perspective of someone who has experienced the full-death experiences of these things as well as the healing process following. Part of the "Stages of Death and Rebirth Series."
Stage 8: Scars of the Past Not Withstanding
2020
4096 × 3112p
2 minutes 16 seconds
Single-Channel Video
This piece acts as an epilogue to the series. It investigates the residual nature and scarring effect of religious ideology. This is done through the juxtaposition of the forest imagery abstract to be inferring religious symbols with the symbols traditionally associated with entrapment. Part of the "Stages of Death and Rebirth Series."
Gods of the Faithful
2018
2000 × 2000p
6 minutes
Single-Channel Video
This video made as a reflection upon some of my realizations as a de-convert from Christianity. It made to be seen from the monolith, of which many such monoliths are idols used worship. It is an exploration of the concept of time, eternity, and the contradictions at the intersections of omnipotence and omniscience.
Fate of the Faithful
2019
3840 × 2160p
6 minutes 38 seconds
Single Channel Video
This video made as a reflection upon some of my realizations as a de-convert from Christianity. Utilizing symbols from many pagan religions it explores the contradictions at the intersections of omnibenevolence and omnipotence.
Memories of Kindergarten
2019
1920x1080p
1 minute 30 seconds
Single-Channel Video
This piece was among my pieces created from catharsis. Using symbols and imagery typical of my childhood it explores religious indoctrination and long-lasting effects of abuse.
A Self-Portrait
2019
1080x1920p
2 minute 31 seconds
Single-Channel Video
This piece explores the intersections of memory, self-consciousness, and religious indoctrination in a very personal matter.