⌘ + SHIFT + 3 is a series of watercolor paintings that reference the keys held on a Mac to take a screenshot. The places we live digitally often show a lot about where our head is at on a given day. It can show our too many open tabs, our unending to-do-lists, the long group chat with our closest friends, and the ways we wind down from work with games and videos.
Our relationship with the devices we carry around is both familar and strangely intimate. We almost always have at least one by our side. So much of our world takes place on our computers and the desktop is a place we live a large portion of our lives now.
These watercolor paintings show a section of where my head was at when creating them. Sharing various reference photos pulled from Tumblr, research texts, YouTube videos, and the the clutter of the desktop hidden in a folder called “Desktop” I used these digital collages and subsequent paintings to tell short stories; about change, growth, adaptation, and hope.
I wanted these paintings to make my audience consider what it means to live in a way that is very digital and online. There are too many projects, too many side hustles, or layers of meanings we assign to ourselves. The way we share ourselves through our devices changes depending on the unspoken rules of an app or digital space. I hope that you see bits of yourself and your own digital life in these pieces.
