Artist, Kahlil Robert Irving: The images that you see on the walls have been amassed since 2013. I'm constantly taking photographs. I'm constantly capturing moments.
Within the wallpapers, you can see images of buildings, like the large stainless steel arch in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, and the woman's house that was put on top of tractor-trailer truck beds and moved from one part of the city to another. From the bottom of the wallpapers, you see asphalt or cross-sections of the earth ranging all the way up to images of the sky above us. It's about the architecture around us and what we see through it and experience under it.
There's screenshots from movies, television, YouTube, even FaceTiming my grandmother. These images recall my own personal relationship to technology but also can exist as windows for the viewer to reflect on their experiences. More than anything, within each wallpaper, the constant bombardment of information is like not ever putting your cell phone down or not ever closing your computer.
In much of the information presented, there are spaces for people from certain experiences to have a lot of room and rest because they understand what's being shared, and for some viewers, they won't understand much, and so there's a constant engagement with so much that they have to absorb. And so this play between time and accessibility and information consumption was very interesting to me.