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traces
In the contemporary environment where identity and perception are increasingly conditioned by our experience of the virtual, lines between reality and fiction, intention and implication, and understanding and acceptance become significantly blurred. As our dependence upon media and technology grows so does our estrangement from direct sensory interactions. My work examines how such estrangement redefines our experience, influences our sense of self, and shapes our sociopolitical perceptions.

Traces utilizes the fetishized scientific aesthetic of such media fictions as CBS’s “CSI”. In this work forensic evidence in the form of Polaroids, audio recordings and blood and hair samples are collected, catalogued and re-presented to the viewer. This mundane detritus is installed as sculptural artifacts, inviting the viewer to experience them in physical reality. Yet, as the context and meaning of this evidence remains ambiguous, it may reveal more about the viewer than about the subject. As with all mediated information, this evidence offers no resolution to any one truth. The viewer is therefore, left to draw their own conclusions and provoked to consider whatever beauty, fear, hope or repulsion they may find, as lying somewhere within their own preconceptions.
  — Nina Leo
 
 
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