Data Crunchers

Year: 2021

Media: Quilt

Dimensions: 75" x 54"

This quilt looks at how data plays a massive role in police violence, criminalizing innocent people. There is an underlying system crunching all the behavioral data generated by our online likes, hears, clicks, and searches that shape where and how we move. There is no care or justice in this system, just data crunching — and an enduring legacy of capitalism is at play, ensuring the market's growth and sustainability.

I imagine this to be an elegant system, one that is so mesmerizing we believe it leads to freedom; in reality, it feeds off of our free will. It won't stop until we stop feeding it. So how the hell do we stop feeding it as a collective and not just individuals? That is the work ahead.