The System’s System

Year: 2021

Media: Quilt

Dimensions/Duration: 84" x 90"

This quilt looks at the layers of categorization within data collection systems that go on to shape our perspectives, decisions, and identity all while creating top-heavy power dynamics that allow Microsoft, Google, and Facebook to function as gods, shaping life. It is a strategy to ensure the knowledge of these systems - how they work, who they serve, and what they take - is tucked away in these companies. There are also formulas to deal with your outrage, using words like inevitably and future to convince you to accept surveillance as a new way of life.  

It is all a shitshow to say the least but I like to believe in anomalies, things that can't be data crunched or put in a box. There is always something that can crash the system. Nothing is inevitable, nothing is singular. Your self-determination is more powerful than an algorithm.