reality

Throughout several projects during my graduate studies and with my thesis work, a short comic titled Thrilling 1999, I explore different aspects of the mind/world hyperobject; a concept I have created after Timothy Morton's notion of the "hyperobject". Hyperobjects are objects which have a complexity and vitality about them but you cannot apprehend them, such objects are like race, class, human life, or climate change. And they are massive and overwhelmingly difficult to map, discuss, and know. In my conception, each of us is a hyperobject. My work attempts to explore the hyperobject that engulfs my life and depicts feelings, ideas, and impressions I see about the world; speculations on so-called universal truths; and how the internal mind synchronizes with external phenomena.

What is reality? To most people it is what you see with your eyes, what you hear with your ears, what you can touch, taste, and smell. Reality is what you sense of the external world that exists independently from your internal mind. The senses relay data to the brain via the nervous system and perceptions are formed. We consider our perceptions of reality to be an accurate depiction of how the world really is. But what if its not as simple as that? I am interested in perception as it is fundamentally related to both the human experience and art.