MAINSTREAM MEDIA confronts the aggressive, shifting nature of contemporary American identity: landscapes and people defined by information overload, fractured narratives, and cultural volatility. In an era when truth is a matter of negotiation and optical advantage, these one-of-a-kind pieces act as tactile excavations into our collective psyche, capturing a society caught between a reverent nostalgia and an uncertain, chaotic future.
By dissolving the boundaries between photography, collage, and painting, the work moves beyond traditional to reflect the layer-on-layer complexities of modern media and relationships to nature. This hybrid approach allows for a physical disruption to a singular artistic approach, mirroring the way our consumption fragments our focus and forces our tribalism.
The integration of unusual materials serves as a bridge between disparate eras. Juxtaposing the organic permanence of dried ferns with the stark modernity of industrial aluminum creates an intentional, jarring friction. Meanwhile, layering vintage book pages and imagery underneath paint physically binds America's institutional past with its current, unstable evolution. Ultimately, this collision of mediums handles the photograph not as a static record, but as an active, fluctuating site of cultural critique, questioning what repurposed integrity, legacy lost, and the outright absurd remains of our shared culture when the narrative is completely decentralized.
