Statement

My work is an urgent response to what it feels like to live digitally—the endless bombardment of information, networked images and all the ways digital systems shape us. Life is made up of what we pay attention to. By bringing familiar images, texts, memes and fragments of pop culture circulating online into silkscreen paintings - I use repetition, layering and materiality to interrupt the feed. In examining these digital artifacts and the meaning they carry, I seek to reclaim the depth and mystery of the human experience from the systems of power and control behind what we see. By uncovering what subtly guides us—and why—I hope to rediscover deliberation, connection and meaning, and mark where digital life ends and reality begins.

—Cassandra Zampini