zen_glitch

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zen_glitch.v2 (2025, digital video)

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Zen_glitch is an found footage, collage film that explores Buddhist concepts of Saṃsāra as an aimless wandering through the on-going cycle of life, death, and rebirth that characterizes material existence as suffering. Drawing from visual sources such as glitched videogames, vintage educational films and documentaries, corrupted art historical jpegs, and microscopic video of plants, the film’s structure mirrors Saṃsāra through technically mediated states of consciousness. Just as one moves through mundane life characterized by suffering, zen_glitch guides the viewer through an unveiling wormhole that reflects worldly cycles of despair and eventual transcendence through states of nirvana. These cyclical abstractions of suffering and liberation from worldly desire in zen_glitch draw a relation among glitch aesthetics and modes of being in Buddhist thought characterized by ever-changing, mutable assemblages of people and material objects as well as rebirth through the inevitable nature of the “skies falling apart.”  

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Exhibited at:

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Post/Meta, Arts Warehouse, Delray Beach, FL., August-September 2021.