Representation – dissonance productions

COLORED BLIND

It began with a well-meaning, if misguided comment, from a White person that I should pursue a MFA to work towards Documenta and Biennale. "Your ideas will jump to a…

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2025 Generative / Interactive Music

Ai Chink

Ai Chink is a project that stages a collision between AI and the I Ching, the ancient Chinese Book of Changes. The title is intentionally abrasive: a linguistic short-circuit that…

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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

INDENT(UR)ED brings forward the often-overlooked human presence within monumental histories, focussing on the often-overlooked carvings representing scenes of daily life carved into the grand bas-reliefs of the Bayon temple at…

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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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2017 Installation / Site Visual / Photography

TO Canada with love

Canada’s sesquicentennial (150th) has the typical excess of Nationalistic fervor – where patriotism has become to mean to follow blindly and not criticize/poke holes against the appearance of “unity”

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2015 Film

CONTENTUS

CONTENTUS takes its cue from the meanings of the (latin) word - to strain with exertion, to hold together; in which three parallel stories intersect in a contemporary allegory of…

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2013 Film Music

MY WOUNDED HEAD

Taking it's title from Marc Chan's composition, MY WOUNDED HEAD is an experimental short that investigates issues of representation (and people's preconceived notions) and reflexivity. Marc's music, featured in the…

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2013 Visual / Photography

SEX TOY

Inspired by an action figure Stephen found in a Dollar store that was decorated with all sorts of "macho" gear (e.g handcuffs, leather, mask, straps, etc.) which blurred the distinction…

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