"Trapped" Screening at Adelaide Festival Centre, 2018.

Trapped, (2016) is a video that explores and presents ideas of intimacy in a digital age. Driven by the artists own experiences as an adolescent, coming of age at a time when mobile devices and the internet were rapidly becoming an important part of the lives of the people around him.

“Societies’ widespread adoption of the internet has made computers the main platform for social interaction. I seek to throw aside any digital interaction and reconnect with “real life” experiences but can’t help but find myself feeling left out and disconnected in an age where the internet and digital technology is rapidly transforming life, work and politics. I am trapped, relying on technology to connect with others but

“Trapped” takes a critical stance on the contemporary image and the amplification of our lives on the internet. The work explores the contemporary human experience living a life reliant on technology to propagate human relationships. Visually, “Trapped” is a three-dimensional collage composed of fragmented photographs of human body parts and lurid plastic materials. The aftereffect, a hyper coloured, perplexing mashup of digital and “real”.

Trapped was presented as a large scale immersive projection installation in correlation with Queensland Museum and Brisbane Street Art Festival in February 2017.