No Shortage of Bodies is a book and exhibition composed of a culture report and a series of photographs and paintings. The 2020 culture report makes predictions on how our collective relationship to images might change as we venture into a new decade. The photographs were sourced from the most popular stock photography website and the human figures from the photos were all digitally removed. The paintings reference the cropped figures and were completed while I commuted on the train for my own job in design/marketing.

“Each decade, we pore over data and signals from the world around us — strolling, scrolling, being scrolled past, there are so many insights to glean from our simple strolls — where we can see the next decade ahead unfolding. This decade, we’re going further.”

Drawings about trust, corporate aesthetics, and bodies.

A video wading through research of answers offered by most major god-related mythologies from human history (as determined by English-Wikipedia). The video is overwhelming with layered conflicting exterior and interior frames. The interior frame is an e-book generated using every image from the Wikipedia pages for ‘God’ and ‘Deities’. The videos filling the exterior frame are the most popular free stock videos available on a high-quality royalty-free stock video website, acting as a sort-of catalog for humanity’s current cultural moment. The texts adorning the top and bottom frame are two separate streams of consciousness, changing with each page turn of the interior frame book. The top text reveals text from the Wikipedia articles the images were originally sourced from, while the bottom offers personal individual reflections. Random frames from the video are printed and exhibited as needed.

Part of a series of lyrical digital vignettes of fictional objects. A work about ornaments and decoration, pulling from corporate stock objects used in an advertising day-job. The objects made for 'Excuse Me, I Have Work to Do’ are investigations into what-ifs.A show I want to make, but can't, and would never. A stone made of molded coal, burned from... A bouquet from.... eh..... nevermind...

A net-art piece featuring a short interactive allegorical chatbot. Intended to be the type of website you might stumble upon, engage with briefly on your private computer, lightly contemplative and private, maybe a little strange, and you might wonder "was that art?"

Gestural distortions within empty contemporary art spaces bending the architecture into and onto itself. Installation shots are a show of power and this sortof contextual reconfiguration creates some fun new sets of expectations. In the end, New Work is art about art, and is art about infrastructures as assertions of power.

Over 3 hours of close-up, almost intimate, stock video of people’s faces. These are all of the close-up stock videos of people from a major stock website. Among the available available videos, whose likeness appears most often? This artwork is about power, our relationship to our own image, empathy, the market, and our culture’s reflection of whose likeness and narratives are most marketable and valuable.

I've been using a database of over 3000 emptied contemporary exhibition spaces for the production and showing of my work own work. In 2016 I built Exhibition Spac.es to make the database available online. This online database serves as a resource for other emerging and early-career artists in establishing their online and documented presence. Exhibition Spac.es is a regularly updated free database of high-resolution emptied contemporary exhibition spaces and frames, as well as tutorials and resources to aid less digital-savvy artists compile their own non-real documentation or implied installations. The images and resources are published under the Creative Commons Zero license (free to copy, modify, distribute and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission).

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