Evidence of Our Own Primitive Nature is a site-specific installation that magnifies moments of interaction and genesis within speculative microcosms. It proposes an alternative way of existing—one where no entity is bound to a singular expression, device, or reality. These works oscillate between code-based interactive vignettes, digital fabrication, and animation, embracing the breakdowns and glitches that inevitably emerge when these systems intersect. These failures aren’t mistakes; they’re adaptations—shifts that reveal new modalities of being.
At its core, this installation is about transcendence—not in a spiritual sense, but in a material one. It asks: What does it mean to exist beyond the constraints of prescribed forms? How do we, as human animals, reconcile our bodies—our “meat suits”—with the vast, swirling networks of time, biology, and cosmic chance that brought us into being? Every breath we take, every flicker of movement, is shaped by the mutations and glitches of our ancestors. The conditions that made us possible were precarious and specific. A small deviation, a slightly different mutation, and the trajectory of our entire species could have been altered.
This work explores those contingencies. It creates reliquaries for experiences that fall outside of human comprehension, synthesizing biologies, spaces, and times into forms that gesture toward something beyond the limits of personhood. We are deeply entangled with everything around us—microorganisms, cosmic debris, the ghosts of evolutionary dead ends—and yet, the ways we define ourselves remain rigid. Our “peoplehood” determines how we are categorized and what possibilities are afforded to us. These limitations, imposed by society, technology, and history, are like the standardized aspect ratios of screens—arbitrary constraints that shape what we see and how we understand ourselves.
In this installation, video is not just a module or medium but a ruptured surface, a glitching bridge between what is seen and what is just beyond comprehension. By engaging with a techno-mysticism that collapses bodily experience with the infinite, I hope to explode the limiting notions of identity, selfhood, and existence. I want to create a spacey-sparkle-party of untapped human potential—where the boundaries between organism and environment, machine and body, past and future dissolve into something radically transformed.