Mona Lisa Installation

Based on my textile practice, I have been experimenting with an allegory for our lives mixed between the physical and digital. I compose textiles, paintings, and digital manipulation to manifest my interest in seeing and being seen. My theme of ‘seeing’ is related to individual, social, political, scientific, and religious interactions and is implied in my work process. I create spaces where horizontal and vertical lines intersect by weaving together, warp, and weft on the canvas. Recently, I select famous paintings I wish to interpret from various angles, using them as the original forms of my works. After I have made and selected the original form, I follow a process of editing, layering, and transforming an image over and over again, to the point where it is hard to tell if the images might be linked. In this way the series is about transference; the paintings are the beginning of the series and they are transformed and warped into new digital forms. As I appropriate imagery from the past, I transform the familiar into the alien and explore the meaning of the seeing.