Cessation, 2017. 

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Multi-media, HD video, colour, sound. [14mins (looped)]

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Cessation aims to articulate the supposed seven stages of grief by constructing and manipulating internet imagery. Self-recorded moving image, gifs, green screens, sound clips and animations are used as tools to create a visual navigation, travelling through elements of shock, pain, anger, reflection, revelation, reconstruction and hope.

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Combining digital elements with artificial foliage regurgitates internet’s recurring motifs and iconography in a real-time, physical space. Similarly, the median stage of grief as 'depression, reflection, and loneliness’, is represented here by a statue with synchronized white screens and accompanying sound.

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Although all footage has been manipulated, edited and sequenced based on an ongoing, private navigation of grief, degraded footage has been sourced based on the internet’s un-cited terms and definitions. The publicly accessed, low-quality content across these sounds, objects and imagery eradicates agency and personal sentiment is almost entirely lost.