The Fractured Memory of a Mind's Eye
Russell. White
VCU Scholars Compass 2017 DOI: 10.25772/7js0-p606 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
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| Key points | Describes an artistic practice concerned with reality, identity, memory, and the effects of pervasive data and media systems on the mind. The artist states that humor and psychedelic surrealist imagery are used to question these conventions and to break away from what the artist calls the "conscious prison" shaping how concepts are formed. |
Abstract
The work I create is informed by questioning reality/identity, the fractalizing planes of existence our essence occupies, and the artifacts of memory experience navigating through space time. While existing in this realm of oversaturated media and neon glow, I question the effects of pervasive data systems overloading or programming the mental software we possess. My work includes humor as a means of exploring these conventions while also displaying psychedelic surrealist imagery to help break away from the conscious prison this existence births our concept apparatuses within.