Anonymous Moms is a series of oil paintings made into an installation.
I began my process by taking screenshots of Kim Kardashian’s sex tape on Pornhub. By passing these through a series of filters and mediums, a sense of distorted eros emerges. Due to the innately uncanny quality of the outputs, Artificial Intelligence software (BigGAN) is a key element in my process.
I am fascinated by the uncanny and seek to induce it in my work. As described by Freud, it is an enigmatic quality that a thing can possess, which sets off an automatic emotional response that ranges between repulsion, creepiness, chilling horror, fascination, and confusion. It can be induced through a variety of criteria, including taboo, the doppelganger effect, corpses, and unusual recurring coincidences.
