About

Photo taken by Lilah Summers Dixon in 2024

In my practice I seek to visualise the trajectory of a conscious simulation.

My works situate simulation theory as both an inherent by-product of the modern condition and a central tension within the digital imaginary. To invoke this tension, I render cyber-specific visual hallmarks in the tradition of oil on wood panel. In using historical oil painting techniques to depict such imagery, I aim to stage a confrontation of the antithetical infinity and ephemerality that the intangible archive of conscious simulation imbibes.

By incorporating places and persons known to me in states of obfuscation, flanked by gaudy, surreal, or digital paraphernalia, I aim to propose a theoretical visualisation of cyber-induced ego death, wherein the disentanglement of reality from ultra-reality becomes impossible.

Through the rehoming of digitally-tethered motifs among pedestrian sites, my practice conceptualises simulation theory at its various junctures: contrivance, continuance, and, inevitably, collapse.

I obtained my Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art) from the Victorian College of the Arts.