the world is on fire (2026)
Photographs of a glitching television fed into a machine learning program emerge changed and slowed down, leaving fragments of the original sources - tv news dissolving into what at times feels like peeling digital paint. Looping single channel video for projection.
I don't watch television, I don't have it on, but when it glitches, I love it- the fragmented reality. I started photographing the glitches on tv. At the same time, I’ve been experimenting with AI image-making tools, not to refine images, but to experiment with and disrupt the training process. The title is a reference to the film by Robert Breer, Man and his dog out for a walk, where you have lines of abstraction moving and changing, but you're looking for a man and a dog. Eventually you see it. The world is on fire has that abstraction, but it hints at or teases TV images embedded in it. When you can't see them, you can feel them by making out text that is a garbled remnant of a headline on a news broadcast. And at times it feels like a modern painting on the wall at a gallery, beautiful color and surface.
Sometimes you look at the work you have created and it is a reflection of your experience- in my case- there are all these beautiful moments in my life, yet the world is on fire.
looping video for projection
I don't watch television, I don't have it on, but when it glitches, I love it- the fragmented reality. I started photographing the glitches on tv. At the same time, I’ve been experimenting with AI image-making tools, not to refine images, but to experiment with and disrupt the training process. The title is a reference to the film by Robert Breer, Man and his dog out for a walk, where you have lines of abstraction moving and changing, but you're looking for a man and a dog. Eventually you see it. The world is on fire has that abstraction, but it hints at or teases TV images embedded in it. When you can't see them, you can feel them by making out text that is a garbled remnant of a headline on a news broadcast. And at times it feels like a modern painting on the wall at a gallery, beautiful color and surface.
Sometimes you look at the work you have created and it is a reflection of your experience- in my case- there are all these beautiful moments in my life, yet the world is on fire.
looping video for projection