No longer in focus, all grand narratives dissipate in the space of post-history, as technological dependency diminishes the tangibility of our experiences. The medium has swallowed the message.

The nature of the earnings that define late capitalism have incidentally raped us of nature itself. The world, no longer in focus, has succumb to a blur of movement amidst the obscurity of media images and sequence of endless distractions and schizophrenic moments. Our collective consciousness has been reduced to a scattered daze. Truth is lost amongst the arbitrary and insignificant objectives semiotically spun as we back sedated by the flickering screen and the false promises it proposes for the future it truncates.

Illusion won’t save us from reality, even as the sustained narrative of tabloids becomes history and the myth of progress continues to perpetuate violence and inequality. Globalization has moved forward unevenly and no one can say where this "New Frontier" is taking us. Our time is marked by deindustrialization and the exploitation of cheap labor, climate change and clean coal, nationalism and a refugee crisis. The skeletons of old factories serve as caveats of a world increasingly reduced to a bottom line.

As desertification and extreme weather patterns delimitates habitable and uninhabitable zones, it is clear that the earth can’t eternally withstand the strain of the industrialized world. Central to this work is the question of human survival in relation to nature and a global environment increasingly defined by unpredictability.

Images can only be read as vague representations of the real or phantasmagorical. The medium of capturing remains true to its complicit relationship with truth.  Life is a series of flickering impressions most of which go unregistered.

Piece explores the mythology of a fictional past and the anonymity of cultural narratives. Interested in the absence of destiny and physical products of perception.

The mass communication media of the U.S. "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion”        

-  Noam Chomsky 

Ideologically encoded through the use of semiotics, advertisements posit meaning through the relational system of signs.  There is no reality outside representation, but rather a socially constructed system of meaning. Subconsciously, we are structured by this repertoire of codes and grammar of meaning that dissects binary structures.

Our view of the world is unique and cannot be shared. Memories transcends the skeleton of the past like ghost. A photograph simulates the act of seeing, it is physical product of perception.  Yet how is this light refractory so intimately connected to the process of formation and free association. Like in response to a Rorschach test, the work explores figurative analogies without definitive statements and authorial positioning.

"Afro Blue" is a jazz standard composed by Mongo Santamaría, perhaps best known in its arrangement by John Coltrane.

The banality of violence. As postmodernity cannibalizes authenticity, contemporary photography oscillates from being an "archival medium" to a self-aware one. Whereas both forms lend a version of the truth- the disparity between them posits with the notion of "representation". There are endless representations of a single moment which complicate the veracity of a single photograph.

Illusion won’t save us from reality, even as the sustained narrative of tabloids becomes history and the myth of progress continues to perpetuate violence and inequality.   Globalization has moved forward unevenly and no one can say where this "New Frontier" is taking us.  Our time is marked by deindustrialization and the exploitation of cheap labor,  climate change and clean coal, nationalism and a refugee crisis.   The skeletons of old factories serve as caveats of a world increasingly reduced to a bottom line.  Yet, these portents are drowned out by the white noise of the media, which lure us in with the empty promises it proposes for the future it truncates.  
 

For 50 years, corporate power has been glorified, consumption championed and waste justified.  Now we stand before a precarious future.  

Contemporary cultural narratives, like ancient myths, speak to our common aspirations, anxieties, and perplexities. These ritually retold stories help to create a sense of communal identity.

Amid the onslaught of media images, we experience life as a sequence of schizophrenic moments.  Our collective consciousness has been reduced to a scattered blur that drifts from the new multiplex, the old strip mall, from one meal to the next, twitter, a text message, a coffee- medium or large, a cigarette, numbing hours of TV, all unnaturally constructed “needs”. 

Truth is lost amongst the arbitrary and insignificant objectives semiotically spun as we back sedated by the flickering screen and the false promises it proposes for the future it truncates. 

Entangled in an endless cycle of distraction, the western world inhabits the space of post-history where all grand narratives dissipate and technological dependency diminishes the tangibility of our experiences. 

The social landscape has become a noisy, fractured space dominated by advertisements. We produce scads of shiny short-lived products destined to eternally decay in the purgatory of landfills. How will history judge us?

Presence is defined by its absence. Interested in the transient space of motel rooms, this series solicits a recognition of the collective experience-looking at how objects wear time, details become mysterious and mundane moments go unregistered, yet internalized.

‘The time of an instanteous presence that is no longer even the present moment in relation to a past or a future”  Baudrillard

Recognized by the Huffington Post  as “One of Fourteen Artists that are Transforming Opera”, Lisa E. Harris is a creator.  This video is a tribute to both the strength of her voice and the beauty of her person. 

The palimpsestic female body is a site where cultural phenomenology and social perversions have historically been inscribed. America's consumer society is fueled by a market that by nature must constantly develop new consumables and new consumers; as such, the body has increasingly become its terrain over the years, and larger and larger segments of women's and girl's bodies have become colonized, commodified, and reshaped by market forces.

With the end in sight now, I grope for the words to describe my experience here, but find I am lost for them. 

The more light there is the less you see. "One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." Sigmund Freud

Ideologically encoded through the use of semiotics, advertisements posit meaning through the relational system of signs.  There is no reality outside representation, but rather a socially constructed system of meaning. Subconsciously, we are structured by this repertoire of codes and grammar of meaning that dissects binary structures.