End of Transmission
This series of drawings are based on public broadcast spectacle moments taken from choreographed populist political events such as Presidential Inauguration day Jan 20th 2025_significantly also Dr. Martin Luther King day_
Playfully reimagining the floor plans of United States Capitol, these drawings are re-diverted into coded works that advocate for human rights and democratic values while employing subcultural strategies of civil protest. Drawing functions here as both research tool and speculative device: a method for concept development that references historical political demonstrations and activist movements.
Compilations of subversive or protest music from the historical to contemporary were sourced on digitized platforms and also by invitations to friends and musicians, to provide a song that resonated with them as a protest or way to express a political moment where they personally ‘felt compelled/frustrated/joyful’.
The works respond to ongoing political turbulence, collectively experienced through public broadcast systems, where heightened events are framed as spectacle. By translating architectural plans into symbolic and subversive visual languages, the project reclaims structures of power and repositions them as sites of critical reflection and civic imagination.
Media used: Torn paper, tape, acrylic, pencil, staples, collage, sharpie markers. Paper works were the entry point to developing the self invented ‘aesthetic of neglect’. The simplicity of tactile handling materials along with in depth research of broadcast developments, political current affairs & personal familial history all combined to produce these drawings and greatly inform the painting practice & works of exhibition.
