About This Series

This project was originally conceived in February 2018 for the Other Places Art Fair at the historic Battery Leary-Merriam, San Pedro, CA. My collective, Durden and Ray, responded to the concept of "surveillance" as interpreted through sculpture and video, using readily-available materials like discarded cinder blocks, lumber, and furniture, as well as tech-driven ones like webcams, processors, and CCTV that are now part of our daily lives.

The digital video works express a heightened sense of anxiety with regard to perpetual military, government, and corporate surveillance. The use of such aggressive tactics illustrates our twisted technological reality, made unbearable in light of undocumented immigrant crackdowns, harassment of persons of color, and other scare tactics initiated by the current administration. Their indiscriminate use of our data acts as a vehicle to dehumanize us to the point where we become nothing more than an abstraction of zeroes and ones.