Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Sonya's Statement

My practice utilizes digital media to express/explore a generative tension between machine logics and the often-binary ‘morality’ of the culture/s in which we live. I play with ideas of power, sexuality, and identity. My work is an effort to create a space beyond the boundaries of gender and familial conformity. I am interested in the blurring of those boundaries. I hope to reflect a kind of springboard for personal mythology, embracing an internal struggle often set in decomposing environments. I concoct worlds, which speak to the empowerment found in self-definition, personal narrative, and the existence within. Interpretations are a record of embodied knowledge. This video reel is a catalogue of states and histories holding skepticism toward binary systems such as gender, sexuality and the labels which make up that food chain.

The only thing universal is the need to create and abstract narratives, and therefore personal visual languages. ‘Society is built on a system of grand interlocking narratives.’ Our only fingerprints are our interpretations. Extracting myth, memory, and cognition from personal experiences is vital to self-awareness, and empowerment over those experiences. Coming to existence and leaving a record of change is the process.