Who knew that 2020 would more closely resemble Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World than an era of progress and revolutionary technology. Between the lines of a global pandemic, disturbing rhetoric transforms America into a technofascist regime through tools of divisive language and the activation of new media platforms.
We won’t forget George Floyd, Breanna Taylor, Jacob Blake, nor so many others—nor will we forget the unprecedented abuses of power in Portland or Kenosha — and may we not forget when our own system was weaponized against us all through the freedoms of our media.
This matte painting, done in collaboration with Fatemeh Ghasemi and Roshanak Ghezelbash serves as an archival piece of trying times in the land of "freedom" and "equality".
