The Perfect Storm

2022, Mixed media, 50x80”. Images by Nadia Bautista. 

Red and black lines interface on a repurposed shower curtain embroidered both by hand and machine, with abstract images of screenshots of microbial lives, and original images of microscopic organisms found in still water. The resulting surface, is imperfect, a glitched representation, outcome of a random layout in which new under impossible predictions, improvable symbols are revealed.

Reflecting on predictive technologies, sections of this piece were scanned and overlaid with red squares representing predictive policing software used by NYPD. The image was printed on a transparent sheet, overlaying a poem. This piece was published by SFPC Dark Matters zine in 2022. 
 





Images courtesy of SFPC.