Visual / Photography – dissonance productions

2024 Generative / Interactive Visual / Photography

HalluClichénation

HalluClichénation (portmanteau of Hallucination & Cliché) interrogates the relationships between Generative AI hallucinations (i.e. "makes stuff up") and the imagery it was trained on by generating a series of photos…

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2024 Visual / Photography

indent(ur)ed

Carvings on monuments, particularly those commissioned by rulers, typically base their themes on religious or historical epics, or glorify the royalty and the battles they have been fought. The carvings…

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2024 Visual / Photography

Phantom Selves

PHANTOM SELVES traces the origin and evolution of Thai Buddhist architecture and sculpture, particularly the large Buddha statues Thailand is known for, through temple ruins from the Sukhothai Kingdom (which…

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2024 Visual / Photography

Empty Gestures

EMPTY GESTURES draws upon the Buddhist philosophical concept of suññatā (often translated as "emptiness": which refers both to the lack of inherent existence of all things and the reality that…

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2023 Events / Performance Installation / Site Visual / Photography

731 (死地酸位置)

Okunoshima is a small island located in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan in Hiroshima prefecture. The island was removed from maps when it served as a poison gas factory…

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2023 Visual / Photography

Anal-acts of Kungfu-cius

ANAL-ACTS OF KUNGFU-CIUS is a pun on "Analects of Confucius" considered the core teachings of Confucius and locus of East Asian thought and morality, that originated China and spread to…

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2022 2023 Installation / Site Music Visual / Photography Writing

nūbēs obscura

Shortly before his two week backpacking traverse of Baffin Island in 2022, Stephen received the diagnosis his glaucoma had worsened rapidly and he had lost a significant chunk of his…

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2022 Visual / Photography

W(rit)ing

False Infrared images of abstract aerial landscapes reminiscent of splashed ink, doodles, hatching on paper - as they are etched onto the surface of the earth. CREATED BY:

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2021 Visual / Photography

deBorder

Abstract landscapes using splashed sumi and acrylic inks on xuan (rice paper) mounted on cotton rag paper - simultaneously playing on the french meaning "to spill" and the english context…

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2020 Visual / Photography

E.Mo.

E. Mo. (Mountains) uses Expired paints to create Expressionist landscapes to evoke the places embargoed during quarantine. CREATED BY:

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2020 Visual / Photography

PASCAL

PASCAL (People Against Skin Color And Love) is a pentaptych of fluid paintings that express the zeitgeist of current BLM (Black Lives Matter) struggle during Pride month - paralleling the…

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2019 Visual / Photography

KunstFach

Playing off the homonymic puns of Kunst (art) and Fach (compartment) and German compound words, Stephen creates new German compound swear words pertinent to the experiences of contemporary life using…

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