The static on old CRT television screens was partially created from the cosmic microwave background—radiation that is a remnant from the Big Bang. In that regard, those displays of incomplete transmissions were also something of a visual time machine.
In a moment of cultural over-saturation by way of new media, I am reminded of that static. There is an excess of exposure to everything, leaving even vaguely individual voices to be swept up among the many, easily disregarded and bypassed by an algorithm. Art and culture has always acted as a bookmark throughout human history, and modern technology has disconnected that relationship.
Like that cosmic static, leftover on the screen and battling with the transmissions of the moment, our interconnected age is culturally detatched from time—so while there can be many individually discernable moments, the overall picture is vague and incomplete, constantly shifting against itself. These paintings are a collection of meditations on that concept.
