I Act Comfortably with Others

2025

In "I Act Comfortably With Others" distorted figures drift across the screen, each one carrying a constellation of invisible needs, traumas, desires, and hopes. Floating checkboxes accompany them - diagnostic frameworks we use to categorize, assess, and define mental state and identity. The sketch visualizes the complex interplay between individuals and the systems that seek to quantify their experiences. The figures move randomly, occasionally intersecting with one another, their trajectories influenced by invisible forces: vulnerability, curiosity, compassion, or avoidance.

The work is of infinite duration, unfolding over time. Initially created in the open source creative coding library p5.js as a web-based project, it has been ported to L5, a new coding library and toolkit created by the artist. Sound composed on modular synth.

Exhibitions

LOVE.exe July 2025, New Media Artspace. New York, NY

Openhaus September 25, 2025. ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics.

PikselSavers Nov 20 - Nov 23, 2025. Piksel Festival. Bergen, Norway.