Digital and Physical Spaces: All at Once

In this thesis, I explore our experience of digital and physical spaces in the ever-increasing presence of technology. By investigating the intersections of these spaces, I focus on how our experiences in the physical world are processed through the digital space, to re-merge in lived spaces. Through digital collage paintings, I explore how assisted chance and machine destruction can be productive in the formation of space that is not possible on the screen. By using the drop shadow as primary content, my work takes on the arrangements of surface and space—rather than the requirements of the physical world. In addition, I use the physicality of paint to concretize the digital image into physical space and insert myself between both the digital and the physical world. Through my work, I hope to call attention to the way we process the digital space and physical space, all at once.