An avatar, created through a 3D scan of Syms, navigates a plain and vast virtual landscape, the perspective sometimes floating above, sometimes alongside, as she progresses through a…

Slip is from Martine Syms’ Kita’s World series. Kita enacts the performances of everyday life in a…

The Fool melds varied footage while a narrator describes a brief encounter with a former love interest. A performance of a gymnastics routine merges with iconic Baroque…

Meditation is from Martine Syms’ Kita’s World series. Kita enacts the performances of everyday life…

...my Americana, 2023

...after the war.

...the Chinatown of the mind.

...just what it says, it's about the street. 

THE COUCH CHRONICLES, are ruminations on place, the times, and the general question of what's on one's mind that's worth mentioning to others

THE COUCH…

Based on Emanuel Admassu's essay Menged Merkato, an architectural analysis and historical journey of the largest open-air market in Africa, located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Merkato was…

Hidirtina (Sisters) is based on a mythology from Eritrea and northern Ethiopia. It is part of a larger story collection project that began in 2004. Folklorist Alan Dundes describes…

Created with artist Jolie Ruelle. 

What is an AI’s understanding of human rights? For this project, AI was used to generate images based on the 30 universal human rights as defined by…