negate

“negate” is a series of paintings that utilizes the accessibility of cell phone technology create a perspective shift and to present the lens as the view finder that it is.

These instructions may now be antiquated.

A series of instructions accompany the paintings that lead viewers to alter their accessibility settings on their phones to reveal a mediated image.

The works are made from scanned VHS covers, that were put on transparency and used for cyanotypes. The cyanotypes were then painted in inverted color schemes with watercolor and gouache to highlight the image and the shift from an intentionally uncomfortable one.

It’s important to know what you’re choosing to see and how you are seeing it.

When you think you may not have a choice, or are complacent with the presented norm, please seek out an alternative perspective.