Series Statement — Software
Software traces the fragile edge where human presence meets the forces of time, technology, and loss. The series explores how our tools can both sustain us and fail us — how technology can act as a lifeline and, just as often, remind us of our limits.
In the painting, a woman — newly widowed — sits beside a hand-cranked “Gibson Girl” survival radio, the same device her husband once used to endure a crash over the Pacific. It gave them decades together they might never have had, yet could not prevent their eventual separation.
In the drawing, an actor sits before a stage spotlight as a shaft of sunlight floods the room, overwhelming the artificial glow. Here, presence and absence, control and surrender, technology and nature meet in quiet tension — revealing the vulnerabilities at the heart of being human.
