Mural Faux - Digital Mixed Media 

Human technical prowess has introduced social and sensory environments that rival, and for many exceed, the relevance of the traditional contexts of interaction and the senses. The settings within which we live out our lives, the mediums by which we understand and convey our meanings, are radically unmoored in the digital age. Personal reality is a fabrication we control to one degree or another by deploying various technical applications in a cyber domain. The pieces included here are meant to imply this inverted condition. None of these environments exist as pictured in a three-dimensional, external setting. Yet, they are all composed of external objects that were photographed and deployed as a digital image to create these faux-environments. The intent is to imply a physical setting (tending to look like walls with murals and graffiti) that, while not existing, uses an actual physical environment as an artistic medium to result in something that is not there (all of the “murals” and “graffiti” having been drawn by me and collaged onto photographs of blank walls). Our objects are now our mediums; our mediums now our objects. These pieces are intended to suggest this contextual shift.