"The frayed status of the grooves containing Polly
functions as a physical inscription of its significance,
transferring time onto tangible form, making memory visible "
on the traces of sentimentality
"A minor shift in format revealed a major shift in being."
my thesis, in a nutshell
"Once something becomes
indistinguishable from daily experience,
the need to ask what it is often
goes unrecognized "
on media's invisibility
"While humans travail endlessly toward time travel, digital
media perform it by design. The digital doesn't negate time's
linear flow, but through traceless deletion and palimplistic
layering, it renders time fluid and reversible. In this regard,
the analog is analogous to man, as subject to time's marching
arrow as we are.
on a shared temporal condition
"meaning, behavior, and social discourse are downstream
from media's ontological condition: the why, the when, and the how
are all born from the primacy of what."
on the importance of questioning media's ontology
"Paper therefore produces a
document of its own conception."
on the continuity of paper media
"The reorientation wasn't simply a matter of collective listening.
It emerged from everything surrounding the device like the enigmas
of its mechanisms and past owners, who will forever
remain as anonymous to me as I am to them"
on the magic of used vinyl
True to form, when it came time to write my thesis, The Signal and The Self (2025)
I used a research method that wasn't covered by our syllabus, and theory we barely
scrapped the surface of. I didn't want to deliver what was expected, I wanted to deliver
something that was entirely my own. I went slightly feral writing this.
My closet doors became my whiteboard with arguments linked to philosophy
linked to more philosophy, sprawled across the wood in permanent marker
. It looked absolutely unhinged. It made complete sense to me.
Most of my interviews ran over 90 minutes, primarily because my Interviewees
and I were enjoying losing ourselves in the conversation so much that we
also lost track of time. The study wasn't so much about them, as it was
materialized with and through them.
The work is exemplary of how I produce anything I touch.
Collaboratively, joyfully, with the human experience at the centre,
adding my own spin to what was asked, and making the complicated
feel alive.