This series of paintings draws inspiration from the profound impact of mass incarceration systems and the underlying history of racism within facial recognition technology and surveillance. These artworks engage in dialogue with social movements advocating for prison abolition and promoting restorative and transformative justice, as well as with organizations like The Innocence Project and Anarchist Black Cross, among others. The human body is seen as a vessel, intricately woven with the imprints of inflicted memories shaped by personal experiences. Facial recognition algorithms, widely employed by major corporations to predict the future based on historical data, suffer from the same flaws and biases ingrained within the mismanagement of information. Targeting predominantly people of color, data science perpetuates and automates existing inequalities. In response, I generate my own data—an interconnected and ancestral power—that subverts the narratives of oppression and challenges the encrypted biases present within technology. 2020-present…
