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Binary Code has been something that I have been utilizing as a vehicle to represent the growing schism between what our culture now perceives to be a normal speed of communication vs. the course and speed of communication before the digital revolution. Our lack of comprehension in the raw data of computers is what has inspired me to look at possible degradation of the meaning held within digital messages.
Code Words is a series of photographic prints based upon performances of binary code destructing as dyed silk in bleach. The play between organic materials that have been mass-produced and the contradiction of their representation of digital information is a paradox that has been built into the work. The time spent waiting for the coded message to dissolve and transform into fumes and strings contradicts the speed in which the code is normally used in computer communications. This time allows for me to add my own interventions into the destruction of the code and also to document the course of this natural performance.
The single photographs of the silk and code dissolving are the representations of the “one” in the encoded translation of the title while the empty containers that hold a quantity of bleach showcase the zero. The first word in each title is translated into code onto the silk, while the second word in each title represents the layout of the “ones” and “zeros” in the final composition. The doubly encoded translation becomes the print installation of each piece in the Code Words series.
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