Troubled, Overwhelmed, 2025

Titled by viewers “Troubled, Overwhelmed,” this watercolor painting was made by collecting, recomposing, and recreating historical cloud emoji from different companies and years. The work reflects on the emotional and political dimensions of the “Cloud” as both a poetic metaphor and invisible digital infrastructure that stores memory, behavior, and identity. Installed to appear suspended from the gallery wall, the painting emphasizes the immaterial illusion of digital space while questioning the systems, labor, and resources hidden behind contemporary cloud capital.