Safety Instructions, 2021
Printed digital collage, soft pastel on paper
84” x 44”
Air traveling is a site where routines pause and identities loosen, a site of changes and possibilities all lightly bound by the simple rules such as “brace for impact”. Safety Instructions is a psudo-meta-design of a safety instructions manual compiled from existing imagery around air traveling. Safety manuals promise universal symbols, but are ultimately nuanced and contingent in their visual resolutions. Graphical elements clash, creating pockets of space where drawings made referencing online photographs distributed for deeply private romantic or sexual purposes enter sporadically. As viewers shift between different viewing distances demanded by the work, fragmented figures from both visual worlds drift in and out of recognizability and affectivity, conversing with each other about the capacities at which a person is recognized and engaged with.
This section contains depictions of partial nudity.
