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An Allegory of Mediated Communication
A girl sits alone in a yellow room, overwhelmed by despair. Suddenly, a seed falls through a hole in the ceiling, and she begins to feel a sense of hope—but…
In this animation, the seed serves as a metaphor for a message. The work is an allegory of the emotions that arise through communication and discommunication mediated by technology, including hope, uncertainty, despair, misalignment, and delusion.
This work is also inspired by the emotional rupture and impossibility of communication depicted in The Inverted Forest by J. D. Salinger, as well as by a group of works by Vincent van Gogh—including The Yellow House, The Bedroom, and The Chair—in which he projected the hope-filled life he envisioned in Arles with Paul Gauguin and its eventual collapse.
"Not wasteland, but a great inverted forest, with all foliage underground." (J.D.Salinger)