Because to really live is to live with death all the time

The Creation of a Self is a series of visual art and quotes inspired by the notion of booting a computer, creating a self, programming its memories and destroying memory monsters created from those memories, where the action of psychological death equals the discovery of love, truth, or what J. Krishnamurti calls "the awakening of intelligence."

Stylistically, a love letter to 80s and 90s retro computers, dripping with oldschool visuals lovingly splattered with glitch, with further inspiration coming from the hacker and electronic music cultures of the same time period.

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VISUAL ART

Sequence 1: Booting Up

Sequence 3: Programming Memories

Sequence 5: The Path to The Control Room

Images From The Memory Stream: Endless Loop

Images From The Memory Stream: Mind Burst

Born Digital

And The River Runs Through My Veins

Open Up

Open Up Gray

Some Sort of Digital

Digital Love

Matrix Play

QUOTES

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Relationship is between human beings, not between their memories..

Now, can the end, which is death, be known while living?

The only instrument we have is the mind. We have used it hitherto, wrongly.

Why can't I be free of my attachments now so that living and dying are together all the time?

OTHER

The Creation of a Self started out as a traditional game release, but as life has moved along I've decided to switch to creating and releasing only visual art and quotes related to what are now these types of art series. Thanks for your interest! I look forward to focusing my efforts and improving my visual work as I go from here. See below for other work, including music and videos, that were created for this project.