Not To Code

When it comes to technology and machines, we tend to think that we are the ones in control.  We have given certain machines artificial intelligence, and then expect them to behave in a particular pre-programmed manner which caters to our various and many desires.  Not to Code questions the hierarchy that exists between humans and machines by taking the image of the viewer and his or her environment and placing it inside the guts of its own control circuitry.  The air-driven animation may suggest a breath-of-life action that gives birth to a mechanical embryo, which comes completely assembled with an electronic eye to enable it to study its creators.  The code behind this behavior is just as mysterious as the genetic code found in our DNA molecules. –Artist statement