Body Electric Series

This ongoing series of oil paintings on microchips in circuit boards began in 2018. The initial inpiration was to create intimate paintings of bodies on circuits, which are usually hidden from view inside phones and computers. These personal electronic devices hold and process so much user data and media that viewing their circuits can feel like glimpsing hidden facets of people and their private lives. The series is also a meditation on transhumanism: augmentation of human bodies and the transposition of human consciousness and memory onto digital supports. As time passes, and technology advances, I see these works more and more as depictions of AI-powered avatars and bots, or silicon-based replicants.

The name of the series is a reference to the transcendentalist poem, I Sing a Body Electric by Walt Whitman, an 1855 ode to the sacredness of the human form in all its manifestations.