About this Artwork

My work transforms the urban grid of Austin into a living, spiritual landscape that overrides the physical city with a digital layer of ancestral memory. By manifesting a colossal, ash-painted zealot at the epicenter of a blooming cataclysm, the piece performs a “Digital Occupation” of commercial spaces like The Francis Modern Inn. It utilizes Subvertising to challenge the polished narratives of a tech-heavy city, “swallowing” skyscrapers with a tidal wave of hyper-vibrant flora and desert peaks to prove that the spirit of the land is more permanent than its concrete structures.

The piece pushes storytelling beyond the screen by projecting glowing silhouettes of long-lost ancestors through shimmering mists, forcing the viewer to confront a hidden history that sits directly on top of the modern street. Using the Antropofagic (cannibalistic) lens of Brazilian modernism, I am decolonizing the urban environment “devouring” the corporate architecture and spitting it back out as a raw, immersive ritual. This is an act of experimental risk designed to awaken a sense of sacred awareness in a public space typically reserved for commerce.

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