Blissful (Dis)Comfort

MFA Thesis Exhibition, April 2024, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY

Culture, family dynamics, and upbringing are formative factors in our personalities and tendencies. From personal anecdotes and past experiences, Blissful (Dis)Comfort confronts, celebrates, and humorizes my home culture and longing for it through light, sound, and the subversion of everyday objects. By modifying mundane but home-related electronic devices, this body of work rejects the expectations of cause and effect, logical consequences, and reactions, blending in the child-like sense of wonder, discovery, and play with more complex themes of nostalgia and family.

In conjunction with this exhibition, ALLLOWERCAPSWITHSPACES is a zine designed to accompany the show, with indirect explanations of each piece, as well as personal anecdotes serving as further contextual exploration.