wet dreams (2020)

Come and meet this wet, porous, fluid body of me,

Let’s morph in the FLUX.

Touch me,

 hold me,

wade through me.

Let’s becoming

becoming Others

Animals,

Women,

Cyborg

Let’s becoming imperceptible

Together.

“[When] technology is embodied in an artwork, technology is no longer what it claims to be, but has become an amenable object.  . . .An amenable object does not require that a distinction be made between what is objectively true and what is subjectively true, between what is real and what is illusory.”

---Jeanne Randolph, "Influencing Machines"

Thing-power…” gestures toward the strange ability of ordinary, man-made items to exceed their status as objects and to manifest traces of independence or aliveness, constituting the outside of our own experience.”

--- Jane Bennett, “Vibrant Matter”

wet dreams aim to untangle the question of “how does my body interact with thing-power in 2020?” and “how would my subjectivity morph when I come into contact with different vibrant materials?”

In this series of images, I investigate the transitional subjectivities of beings under/above/in/through multiple interfaces (either digital or natural). I utilize digital camera to extract the sensuous, erotic, or intimate relationships between fragmented human subjects and vibrant materials under a fluid interaction.

There isn't a single static portrait in this collection of photographs that captures the entirety of the human subject. The viewer, whirling into a heterotopia, does not observe; they voyeur. They examine the close relationship between the eyes and the electrical chip, the arms and the plastic wrap, and the mouth and the silicon ball. They split; they break free from their corporeal bodies; they fragment.