Suture

When digital logic and infrastructure create so much of contemporary life, why are digital and analog still considered distinct categories, with the latter considered less “real”? Suture is a project that questions the relationship between painting and digitality as a form of abstraction. This pairing of an unlikely combination is a way to speak to and make a claim about the material impacts of algorithmic structures on psychic, social, and political architectures. In gesturing to and creating forms of screens, the project considers the effects, impacts, and elusive qualities of personal computing devices in forming perceptual events and sensations. The painting is no longer the closed system of the flat painted surface but is rather deconstructed into layers of disfiguring and fragmented planes of surfaces. 

The term suture refers to sewing two distinct ends of fabric together; it makes disparate units into a whole structure. It is an act of healing, as one sutures cuts with stitches. It is a Lacanian concept that joins the imaginary and the symbolic orders. To suture is to form a loop that reuses the old and is discarded to create something new