Past Digitizaed Spirits 2022

Aussi uses house paints, acrylic, resin and spray paint to create paintings about our spirits and identities in the virtual world or video games. He invites people with similar gaming or online experiences to describe to him about a very specific avatar or character that they associate with in the virtual world in order to create a physical vessel for their experience. The black expressionistic marks he creates within the paintings are oftentimes regarded as the vessels for their past digitized spirits. The resin he uses in the painting functions like a mirror or the computer screen that confuses the viewers about the realm they are in when they look at their own reflections. The color pencil line that runs across the painting is the gesture he sets for his fantasized world; a world of free rules or the rules of Aussi that go against the conventional rules from the restrictions in real life, the gaming world or anywhere in the virtual world.

A colorful world that draws the line for anyone to be free of becoming whoever they want, in any human, animal, biomorphic, expressionistic forms regardless of their real gender IRL to carry that past digitized spirit from the virtual space to the painting space. Aussi mainly invites people who he has never met before to create their interpretations of the aesthetics for their past digitized spirits then Aussi uses that information to build his own noosphere, where the collective of aesthetics are stored in the virtual and painting space. Aussi is fascinated with the idea of painting as a vessel for capturing (mimicking) online images on its surface, and as a physical form that carries a stream of global spirits. All these forms of engagement are housed within a decentralized technological sphere revolving around us. As technology becomes more and more powerful, the virtual and the physical worlds start to come together. Sometimes the inspiration and fostering of creativity comes from within the global network of virtual spirits, which Teilhard de Chardin called the noosphere (“Noos” is the Greek word for mind), rather than from within a person's own thoughts and immediate physical surroundings.