6,964 INCHES OF US
INFO 6,964 Inches of Us is a living on-going archive of all the text message exchanges from my relationships. I examine text messages as an archive of the personal and intimate, and as an archive of what is no longer. Making the private public, I invite the viewer to sift through my digital remnants and the sterile, mundane format of communication to find unexpected moments of intimacy.
Exploring digital ephemera and the outsourcing of the self and relationships to machines, I examine hyperreal representations of intimacy and the tyranny of the screen. I sift through the digital remnants and residues we leave behind in our everyday lives, utilizing intuitive and continual gathering of source material and accidental archives to explore splintered digital and personal terrains.
Through combining text, image, symbols, and social media in physical and digital manifestations, I re-code experiences into language while establishing post screen intimacy, emotions, and both real and constructed narratives from heavily commercialized and sterile digital systems.
Ongoing archive of every text sent in all of my romantic relationships. The digital records of the conversations are permanently deleted once printed.
2018, Digital inkjet print on 23mm crepe de chine silk, acrylic rod.
568”, 165”, 49”, 802”, 78”, 20”, 5105”, 53”, 124”
Displayed at the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art in Pittsburgh, PA in May 2018