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STATEMENT OF WORK
In my recent practice, I employ world-building through 3D computer graphics to create still and moving images, grappling with issues of identity, sexuality and masculinity. My work hybridizes different cinematic genres and uses analytical aspects of filmmaking to create narratives that explore personal and collective emotions, informed by my queer and immigrant experience. I am interested in examining the concept of representation -- the politics of seeing and being seen. There is a confessional nature in my work, a desire to unravel repressed emotions.
Constructed with photorealistic textures and lighting within the computer software, I use 3D computer graphics to create tableaux situated between the inner and outer worlds, autobiography and fiction. I approach image-making as a theatrical endeavor, staging scenes with psychological tension to probe the emotional landscape of the self. My aim is to craft a cinematic space that is tactile and immersive as a queer space, offering resistance and tenderness in response to the remnants of patriarchy and to existential concerns.