i see myself in everything

this piece uses the familiar format of “LOST” signs not in reference to a missing person or object, but to question identity and reflect on the idea of a fixed sense of self and body. 

enlarged halftones blur the boundaries between subjects, visually dissolving into one another, the repeating squares reflecting a shared material makeup. Subjects are a range of life forms, including animals, microorganisms, natural phenomena, and “inanimate objects”.

while people can associate animals and even plants to have consciousness and agency, a forest too can have moods, health, and hold memory. Rocks, formed from matter that was once breathing, carry characteristics of those beings. 

tear tabs at the bottom echo public LOST signs, but instead of repeating text, the words span across. When a viewer takes one, they remove a part of the work- yet in doing so, they also complete it.

rather than a lost, aimless sense of self, this dissolution of identity stems from the acknowledgment that we are part of an interconnected, greater whole.

 12.5" x 18"

august 2024

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