07/24/2026
Spectrum Electrolysis closes tomorrow 7/25 from 5-8pm! The sounds and images for Spectrum Electrolysis are a result of childhood memories and the pieces of evidence of my childhood. My suburban upbringing was document in part on my dad’s old camcorder, a Canon ES150 that shot on 8mm tape. The images you see in this gallery show are still taken from footage shot on this very camera. I was around 2 or 3 when these home recordings were captured in 1999 though 2000 at my family’s home in St Louis, MO at the time. Looking back on these moving images, I was delighted to see myself younger self and siblings playing about in a world of pre-transition, pre-gender, pre-tragedy, pre-heartbreak, and pre-experience.
The inkjet prints throughout this instillation were taken from stills in this home video that happened to be glitched; the visually come off as graphical artifacts on the artifact of the family home video. These images were then printed and had CMYK ink painted over them. These prints were then once again scanned and printed once more to result in what you see as the images in the space. These images transformed from RGB spectrum of the digital screened world into the CMYK spectrum of the real printed world in the process.
Each still image also has a corresponding audio being broadcast from behind the frame that can be tuned into with a radio. These mini broadcasts include a repetition of the F note on a piano so to correspond with the hexadecimal color codes for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. They also contain audio from sections of home video tape each image was taken from.
The static that accompanies finding these broadcasts signals and visual static over the images can be viewed as disconnects of how we look at the world across multiple spectrums. There is the disconnect and connections of gender transitioning over time. The disconnect and connections of bodies changing with age. The disconnect and connections of our own thought processes. This piece works to convey how spectrums maybe viewed and broadcasted across the board.
