Inner Dialogues and Obsessions of the Mechanic Mind
“Inner Dialogues and Obsessions of the Mechanic Mind”, 2010, explored how society values productivity to attribute success and how this influences the public, family units, and individuals.
Inner Dialogues, installation, etchings printed on handmade flax and abaca paper, handmade boxes and wooden shelves, ~14' x 20’, 2010
Artist Statement
We live in a machine-fabricated and aided reality. We create machines, machines create us, we create machines. Our bodies are machine sustained, thus human and machine are one and the same. There is no longer a divide or a difference but blurred boundaries. Through this subtle integration, space has been carved a certain way, societies have been re-structured, discipline reinforced, bodies redefined and reality and non-reality combined and distorted.
This body of work examines the complex relationship and integration between human and machine, the significant effects it has on examining the body politic. It further explores the creation of identity through this machine-run environment, through the idea that human made machine made human.
I am examining how living in this fast paced, high tension, and pressured society can affect one’s existence—physical, mental, spiritual. The general workings of a system, the methods, teachings, discipline and obedience is all part of the process. There is a strict routine, a perfect equation for creating the perfect cyborgs.
Inner Dialogues 2, Etching printed on handmade flax and abaca paper, ~18x24”, 2010
Inner Dialogues Sculpture 1, Etched copper plate embedded in handmade flax and abaca pigmented paper, handmade box and wooden shelf, ~14x16”, 2010
Inner Dialogues 4, Etching printed on handmade flax and abaca paper, ~18x24”, 2010
Inner Dialogues 1, Etching printed on handmade flax and abaca paper, ~18x24”, 2010
Inner Dialogues 3, Etching printed on handmade flax and abaca paper, ~18x24”, 2010
Detail photo, Inner Dialogues Sculpture 1, Etched copper plate embedded in handmade flax and abaca pigmented paper, handmade box and wooden shelf, ~14x16”, 2010
Combining printmaking and papermaking I attempt to recreate those images from my mind. Reaching out to communicate, there is no more “me” but only “we”. What is real and what is not, what is man-made and what is machine-made, all of these anxieties are expressed in the distorted layers of paper and print. All my questions and fears are in each layer of print, of paper. It is a constant inner dialogue that never stops re-evaluating and reforming, much as we never stop being re-defined by the machines, the desire and social production machines.