For my thesis exhibition, I have recreated a surreal version of my family room by acquiring vintage furniture. This surrealistic rendition of my family room gives the audience an opportunity to experience escapism and nostalgia – the driving themes throughout my work. The audience will further understand the basis of my work by physically walking around the space in the context of how I have consumed media ever since I was a child.

I need to acknowledge that being in this curated bubble as a kid still affects me as an adult. Predominantly experiencing 1960s-1980s media as an adolescent continues to have influence in most aspects and decisions of my daily life including my artistic practice. This time capsule of my family room recognizes that we all create our own curated reality, whether or not one is aware; we create a curated bubble, a world and narrative completely separate from others. My sculpture Clover (Bunny) and my digital design Analog (TV) exist in this space together, creating a resemblance between the bunny and the TV with the rabbit ears antenna. I paired these two entities together in order to subtly show the viewer that you are what you consume and, in most cases, don’t acknowledge anything else. This is why my acrylic painting, You Don’t See Us, is positioned on the wall behind Clover – a separate world curated out of her sight.

We make our worlds about ourselves, forgetting everyone and everything else living in the nooks and crannies. I observe there are constantly other matters going on in the background that we are not aware of, little worlds and dialogues we are not a part of – relinquished from our lives.

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