SLOW MOTION MIDNIGHT SPREAD (Installation View)
SLOW MOTION MIDNIGHT SPREAD (Installation View)
A FIXED RESISTANCE
Pigment Print on Wallcovering
12.5 x 55’  
The composite wallpaper is made from photographs of sand dunes I took in California and found images of the desert landscape in the Middle East and the Sahara Desert.
A FIXED RESISTANCE
Pigment Print on Wallcovering
12.5 x 55’
The composite wallpaper is made from photographs of sand dunes I took in California and found images of the desert landscape in the Middle East and the Sahara Desert.
Best of Both Worlds
Digital Animation
00:12:11
2016
The skinning of the booth is mirrored in the 3D animation, Best of Both Worlds, where the body is presented as a deconstructed digital skin – the result of algorithmic pixilation vis-à-vis the technology used in the production of the video.   In this case, the scan is animated through a looping Vinyasa Yoga Sequence.   The piece imagines a body that has crossed through the screen in a kind of stasis of maintenance; trying to repair a form wrought by digital translation.
Best of Both Worlds
Digital Animation
00:12:11
2016
The skinning of the booth is mirrored in the 3D animation, Best of Both Worlds, where the body is presented as a deconstructed digital skin – the result of algorithmic pixilation vis-à-vis the technology used in the production of the video. In this case, the scan is animated through a looping Vinyasa Yoga Sequence. The piece imagines a body that has crossed through the screen in a kind of stasis of maintenance; trying to repair a form wrought by digital translation.
The prints of the series, SLOW MOTION MIDNIGHT SPREAD, are comprised of layered stills from an animation of disembodied hands using American Sign Language to sign the words SLOW MOTION MIDNIGHT SPREAD.  The words were pulled out of conversation I had with an astrologer and psychic after meditating on the anxiety I felt about environmental degradation and the future of the globalized economy. I was hoping the psychic could help reconcile the anxiety I felt about the future using the stars to connect me to the expanse of the universe as a palliative measure.  Instead, she pinpointed somatic manifestations of my worries, much of the conversation centered on ridding my body of the internalized symptoms from a global dis-ease.
The prints of the series, SLOW MOTION MIDNIGHT SPREAD, are comprised of layered stills from an animation of disembodied hands using American Sign Language to sign the words SLOW MOTION MIDNIGHT SPREAD. The words were pulled out of conversation I had with an astrologer and psychic after meditating on the anxiety I felt about environmental degradation and the future of the globalized economy. I was hoping the psychic could help reconcile the anxiety I felt about the future using the stars to connect me to the expanse of the universe as a palliative measure. Instead, she pinpointed somatic manifestations of my worries, much of the conversation centered on ridding my body of the internalized symptoms from a global dis-ease.
SLOW
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 30 in
2016
SLOW
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 30 in
2016
MOTION
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 30 in
2016
MOTION
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 30 in
2016
MIDNIGHT
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 30 in
2016
MIDNIGHT
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 30 in
2016
SPREAD
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 30 in
2016
SPREAD
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 30 in
2016
A Fallen Pixel (I) & (III)
Foam, Polyurea
28.25 x 17.50 x 17.25 in,   18in x 11 x 11.25
2016

The prints of the series, SLOW MOTION MIDNIGHT SPREAD, are comprised of layered stills from an animation of disembodied hands using American Sign Language to sign the words SLOW MOTION MIDNIGHT SPREAD.  The words were pulled out of conversation I had with an astrologer and psychic after meditating on the anxiety I felt about environmental degradation and the future of the globalized economy. I was hoping the psychic could help reconcile the anxiety I felt about the future using the stars to connect me to the expanse of the universe as a palliative measure.  Instead, she pinpointed somatic manifestations of my worries, much of the conversation centered on ridding my body of the internalized symptoms from a global dis-ease.
A Fallen Pixel (I) & (III)
Foam, Polyurea
28.25 x 17.50 x 17.25 in, 18in x 11 x 11.25
2016

The prints of the series, SLOW MOTION MIDNIGHT SPREAD, are comprised of layered stills from an animation of disembodied hands using American Sign Language to sign the words SLOW MOTION MIDNIGHT SPREAD. The words were pulled out of conversation I had with an astrologer and psychic after meditating on the anxiety I felt about environmental degradation and the future of the globalized economy. I was hoping the psychic could help reconcile the anxiety I felt about the future using the stars to connect me to the expanse of the universe as a palliative measure. Instead, she pinpointed somatic manifestations of my worries, much of the conversation centered on ridding my body of the internalized symptoms from a global dis-ease.
NO SEAMS TO MATCH
Custom Printed Silk, Custom Hardware
56 x 26 x 111 in 
The fabric sculpture, No Seams to Match, is a reconstruction of a life-size military bunker sewn from silk printed with two patterns created from photographs I took while standing  seaside looking back at the bunkers.  The interior walls are printed with the composited images,  the exterior wall are printed with a normal map* of the same image.   I was interested in the bunker as a uncompromisingly horizontal architectural manifestation of surveillance and desperation; perhaps the only building truly designed for cyborgs.  The translation into fabric relaxes the brutalist paranoia; rendering the bunker soft and transparent.  

*In 3D computer graphics, normal mapping is a technique used for faking the lighting of bumps and dents on a surface.  It is used to add details without using more polygons.
NO SEAMS TO MATCH
Custom Printed Silk, Custom Hardware
56 x 26 x 111 in
The fabric sculpture, No Seams to Match, is a reconstruction of a life-size military bunker sewn from silk printed with two patterns created from photographs I took while standing seaside looking back at the bunkers. The interior walls are printed with the composited images, the exterior wall are printed with a normal map* of the same image. I was interested in the bunker as a uncompromisingly horizontal architectural manifestation of surveillance and desperation; perhaps the only building truly designed for cyborgs. The translation into fabric relaxes the brutalist paranoia; rendering the bunker soft and transparent.

*In 3D computer graphics, normal mapping is a technique used for faking the lighting of bumps and dents on a surface. It is used to add details without using more polygons.
An Additive Inverse
Plaster, Graphite, Pigment, Wood, Plexiglass
11 x 11 x 50 in
2015
The fist is a direct cast of the artist's’ hand covered in graphite, a naturally radioactive resistant material. Holberton is interested in the hand as a symbol of solidarity, labor,  and physicality. While our experience of technology is increasingly psychological and virtual, the hand continues link us with the technological; swiping screens and sensors that translate between the retina (the cognitive/virtual) and the hand (the biological/physical).
An Additive Inverse
Plaster, Graphite, Pigment, Wood, Plexiglass
11 x 11 x 50 in
2015
The fist is a direct cast of the artist's’ hand covered in graphite, a naturally radioactive resistant material. Holberton is interested in the hand as a symbol of solidarity, labor, and physicality. While our experience of technology is increasingly psychological and virtual, the hand continues link us with the technological; swiping screens and sensors that translate between the retina (the cognitive/virtual) and the hand (the biological/physical).