Emergency Responses explores how individuals create systems in order to make sense of an unpredictable and chaotic universe
My series of ten diagrammatic drawings, An Instruction Manual on How to be Lucky and short film Threshold Magnitude, look at the human impulse to create systems as a paradoxical attempt to find freedom through the imposition rules and constraints. There is a tension that arises from creating systems, as they simultaneously broaden our understanding, clarifying the structure of things, and narrow our perspectives, as gradually all that was nebulous and multiverse precipitates into defined, singular forms.
