White Noise Porcelain, gold luster, wire, electronic parts, video projection., 2010
White Noise Porcelain, gold luster, wire, electronic parts, video projection., 2010
White Noise Porcelain, gold luster, wire, electronic parts, video projection., 2010
White Noise Porcelain, gold luster, wire, electronic parts, video projection., 2010
White Noise Porcelain, gold luster, wire, electronic parts, video projection., 2010
White Noise Porcelain, gold luster, wire, electronic parts, video projection., 2010
White Noise Porcelain, gold luster, wire, electronic parts, video projection., 2010
White Noise Porcelain, gold luster, wire, electronic parts, video projection., 2010
White Noise Porcelain, gold luster, wire, electronic parts, video projection., 2010
Porcelain, gold luster, wire, electronic parts, video projection. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY — MFA Thesis Exhibition, 2010.
Sitting in a train station in downtown Budapest, I look up. Large ceramic insulators hang between the power lines above the platform — beautiful, massive, and utterly invisible to the people moving beneath them. I sit and stare. These could be sculptures. They could be monuments to some long-forgotten political figure or war. Nobody sees them.
They are white noise on the visual platform we all share.
Spaces, objects, people — all become static in our visual landscape. We are focused on where we are going, who we are meeting, what is next. We forget to see the things around us. We forget that there is a world beyond our list, and that this world impacts us. Like two lines that never intersect, we become a continuous missed connection. We look but don't see. We listen but don't hear. Our peripheries become background noise.
We make assumptions based on information we never fully took in. Our ability to process is limited. Our perceptions become shadowed — and what we try to communicate to others is already filtered through that shadow.
The transmission of information is fraught with disconnection. Interruptions cross our realities. Meaning becomes confounded. And yet — it is precisely this interruption that creates the pause allowing us to connect.
At the core of all transmission — of resources, of information, of meaning — is the ceramic insulator: facilitating connectivity, moving what matters from one point to another. In this work, the insulator is revisited, reevaluated, and re-contextualized. Supported by projection and video, the installation invites the viewer to confront the object situationally — and in doing so, to confront their own capacity to notice.