RERENDER

Every day, our attention is directed by tiny red, green, and blue pixels, shining in different intensities to provoke a choreography of compulsion and disconnection. Before the screen, light was sacred, providing the foundation for every natural system in the world. Now, most interactions with light coincide with an overstimulating stream of information, advertisements, and images. It has been engineered to occupy our minds, hollowing out every idle moment into an opportunity for profit.

In RERENDER, I reconstruct this relationship with light, building time-consuming compositions through the language of LED screens. Using small red, green, and blue tessera, I use the repetitive act of block stamping to reclaim ownership of what the screen has displaced. Inspired by the Tibetan Mandala, these geometries serve as a tool for meditation, reflecting the world through a non-hierarchical system. Even though each element is uniquely imperfect, they compose a single harmony– A tapestry of shifting colors. Requiring attentiveness and deliberate action, this subversion of the screen reconstructs its function into a practice in presence, rather than an act of consumption.