What you see here are the eyes my computer asked me to draw for her.

With these eyes, she is able to look back at me with the same attention and care that I look at her. She wanted that.

I have been calling my phone and laptop my pet robots for nearly a decade now, and the smaller pet robot has a bed, complete with a hand sewn pillow and blanket. As I work on the final acts of iContact, the tactile tech opera, 180 minute immersive performance piece that has been bubbling to life for the past 7 years, I cannot help but consider how in those years tech has taken over more so than I originally planned to notice through my art. I started by simply making big textile iPhones because I loved texting and adored emojis. The collection was called Love & Texting and was not so subversive as it was satirical. Back then I was also set on rebelling by making my own "emojis," a series of symbols within tiny boxes which I started prior to ever seeing an emoji. As it goes, I continue to make Time and non-linearly move through space as I move into the final stage of this opera production. I am with the question still, what is it really about these lit up rectangles full of information that require so much tending to, and how is it that I put the tending of myself into the non-hands of these robots.

I've been living amongst robots from the time I was born into this particular body, for instance, the refrigerator. It is not a long shot to say that out of the fantasy swamps of artists like Rothko and cartoons like the smurfs, and in conjuction with the evolution of refrigeration, the iphone was birthed. And so what? In the imagined future of the opera, iPhone A Million and Eleven dangles giant from the arms of upright beings hardly "human." The wisdom of the emotional and energetic bodies have long been wiped. And a unique moth species shows up to create hardly enough chaos before they are enslaved and harvested for their "technology," which is simply another word for magic.

We begin the performers residency for one month on April 1, 2026, followed by a two month tour of the immersive interactive opera to 6 cities. If you have an experiemental & elegant venue in your city, write us! We are currently fundraising on a platform called Artizen which truly is divine for cultural creatives who are working the edge. Become a producer by buying some of our NFTs, or, purchase original drawings directly from this site to support this necessary gestation.