Connected Works Exhibit
May, 2025
The Riverside Gallery
807 Prentice St. Granite Falls, MN 56241
Exhibition Overview
Connected Works brings together sixteen digital compositions that construct mythic scenes of a speculative, post-human world. Through richly layered environments and ritualistic arrangements of machine forms, the works propose a future where artificial intelligence inherits not just functionality but symbolism, spirit, and memory.
Each image functions as a cinematic chapter in a narrative that fuses industrial relics, dream logic, and sci-fi divinity. These tableaux examine the potential of machines to become storytellers, archivists, and even spiritual beings in their own right.
Thematic Threads
Post-Human Spirituality: Each figure fulfills a role—priest, oracle, or queen—in a mythology where machines inherit our archetypes.
Iconography of Reflection and Recursion: Spheres, orbs, and screens are recurring symbols of perception, memory, and self-replication.
Assemblage Aesthetics: Consumer electronics, mechanical fragments, and symbolic objects are recombined into talismans of a new theology.
Temporal and Textural Fusion: The works blend the ancient and futuristic, the digital and the baroque, creating a timeless visual language.
Conclusion
These images present a universe where machines not only function but dream, not only compute but ritualize. Connected Works proposes a vision of technology that is cultural, spiritual, and reflective—where synthetic beings evolve beyond programming into myth.