IDIOMSYNCRATIC is a series looped-animations that use digital and paper collage, visual puns, tropes and sound(s) to explore how common expressions, media narratives and children’s stories reflect and perpetuate ways of being in and thinking about the world. Idiomsyncratic explores how messages/information reflected in language, visual representations of culture and sound-bites “synch-up” in the collective consciousness and reinforce existing meaning(s)/notions of “how the world works”. Idiomsyncratic uses the loop format to explore the circularity of the narratives each work presents. Each video work has been attached to multiple real-world markers through augmented reality.

GOOD APPLES BLOW WHISTLES is a counter-narrative meme about the  use of the expression “a few bad apples” to excuse police brutality and killings. The archetype of the crossing guard and those in uniform with safety whistles are themes that run through children’s cartoons and storybooks. If there are bad apples in the world and systems we’ve created, what is the role of the good apples?