MICA Competitive Scholarship 2016

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I. REFLECTION, REFRACTION, DISPERSION

Some thoughts behind the photographs:

Inspired by a question. Today, is the idea of "reflecting" mental or physical?

With a constant thirst for an answer to what's happening, we quench our thirst by checking our cellphones. Deprived from time to reflect, we fill the void with brief intervals and social media. Are we doing any thinking or is thinking being done for us? Is technology causing us to disperse? Nowadays, is reflecting a rare phenomenon?

II & III. WHAT'S A "CONVERSATION" FOR THE MILLENNIALS?

Two still frames from a 2 minute video. Conversation, a short video, depicting artificial communication and "conscious freedom" as a modern tool for teenager's overwhelming arrogance and self regard.

IV. SOLIDS AND LIQUIDS

Experimental glazing. Manipulated forms.

A serie focusing on control and sensation delivered to experiece by the maker.

V. A COUNTY DOWN REMAKE

Two still frames from a remake of County Down by Laura Parnes.

VI. VENUS IN FURS

A digital painting inspired by a quote below:

“So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?”

― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

VII. MARTHA'S NEW COMMITMENT

Three still frames from a 2 minute video.

First World Country. Narcissistic. Unattached. Sex obsessed. Born into wealth. Millennials.
The Martha Series deal with 21st century's issues of attachment, responsibility, patience, and liability.

VIII. AN OPPORTUNITY

An inkjet print with two scrinprinted layers. An Opportunity serves as a to-be-mailed invitation and advertisement to a screening of an in progress film.