Synthetic
(2024)▫
This project ponders the physical and virtual synthetics that exist in our daily lives. While one is holding a synthetic zine, you can turn pages to find a collection of unnecessary paper bags with jagged edges, flat plastics and containers are a mixture of fascination and frustration. Materials, substances, processes that are created through non-natural methods can be used to create plastic bottles, discarded wrappers, and heaps of rubbish. Objects saved, rather than discarded, can be prompts, starting points, or source materials to generate new images or containers, like AI spawns people, objects or even birds passing through an archive.
Materials, substances, or processes that are created through non-natural methods can be used to make plastic bottles, discarded wrappers, and heaps of rubbish. They can be ubiquitous objects or an inspiration to reuse, repurpose, gather, use, and fold again. In the process of appreciating synthetic beauty, they grew oblivious to the tangible ugliness in their surroundings, like AI spawning people, objects or birds passing through an archive.
We cannot escape AI and chat GPT (generative synthetics) in our current world. Birds were created by NOVIKI (Warsaw, Poland) with assistance from ai. The birds love long journeys. Hand-bound using a selection of papers, fabrics, envelopes, bags, and synthetics in the winter of 2024.
Risograph + Letterpress printing.
Limited edition of 20 books.
8.875 x 11.875 closed without case
© 2024
$2200
