Digital Collage, 2021
Chinese Whispers is a from-memory floorplan of a secondary school computer room. This piece revisits personal memories of hopelessly copying the work of others, and ultimately inhibiting my own learning.
The layout of the computer room would facilitate a string of copying between those who knew what they were doing, and those who did not.
This work is a visual metaphor for the origins of my own insecurities, and how my inability to use basic computer software was born out of my desire to copy rather than to learn things for myself. [ext. text]