Encrypt Me

Year: 2020

Media: Quilt

Dimensions: 36” x 36”

This digital security blanket examines the piecemeal nature of privacy and security tactics used to protect consumers from surveillance. Tools like email encryption, VPNs, and firewalls are individual bandaids that fail to address the systemic nature of our collective surveillance problem. Because technologies of extraction are so deeply embedded in our lives and gadgets and data economies continue to grow unchecked and unfettered by laws, the concept of privacy or security is an anachronism. This quilt is decorated in  shiny privacy theatrics to make us feel better about our choices.