Interference

Most of us live in a messy headspace busy with thoughts, emotions, sensations and memories. This is amplified by the rhythms and dynamic energy of urban life: people, vehicles, sounds, lights, smells. It's a complex system of layered, simultaneous signals that interfere with clear perception, often without our awareness. Interference is an analog/digital project that interweaves photography and drawing to make this jostling of signals visible. Through improvisation and experimentation, I digitally layer gestural charcoal drawings with photographs of urban Vancouver to create charged, ambiguous images with mixed signals of photographic detail and abstract noise. We navigate shared urban space convinced we're seeing clearly, unaware of how much interference shapes every judgment. What changes when we recognize this—in ourselves, and in the strangers around us?