Reality Diagrams is a collection of disparate artifacts that raise questions about our relationship with reality and the irrational consumer culture that it creates. By investigating the primal instinct, derivative nostalgia and cultural indoctrination that is coded into the artifacts we cherish, this practice aims to clarify the phenomenological qualities that make one object or experience more enticingly “real” than another.

Whether speculative or real-world, these poetic objects suggest that becoming conscious, conceptual participants in the creation of our own reality is an opportunity to loosen our grip on the relatively small number of existential truths we hold. By creating comfort in this uncertainty, they may entice people to become more willing to accept the unconventional methods that will be required to navigate an undeniably precarious future.

As we are bombarded with these perpetually derivative objects and experiences tension builds between our latent desire for reality and the contrived ways we seek to obtain it. And, the harder we grasp for it the more obscured it becomes.