Multiple Discovery

“…Would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man, in reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.”

- John Locke

Storytelling, in the west at least, has been centered on the hero's journey, the brilliant man, the decisive moment. In "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction," Ursula K. Le Guin argues that this type of linear progression in narrative is like an arrow, tension building into a singular progression until violent climax, reducing its elements to conflict, one that only serves a single purpose, framing, view point. In contrast, Le Guin posits, what if we were to gather information like a receptacle, a bag or a womb? This question of how we narrate the experience of life is what I am exploring in my current work.

Multiple Discovery exists as a series of nonlinear Installations using Artifact, Monitors, and Assemblage, focusing on contextual perspectives and the indexical shift in an artist relationship with archives, technologies, and subject.

Are there not moments simultaneous and unstructured? A collision of experiences all held together. An accumulation of ideas, unspecific in time. Held. What attitudes and nuance of characters appear on a place, idea or feeling by decolonizing linear narrative? What does a city look like splayed on a table? A life? Do you represent it by all its parts, its foundation, its history, or the millions of lives that went into making it?

-To untwist cultural myths that are interwoven into these structures, and so in these spaces where we decode ideology.-