Nacoca Ko

This is the first sculpture of a work in progress series, Freezing the Loop.

As we shift more and more seamlessly between our real world and online, I wanted to question ideas about dimension and the experience of time. These sculptures are created from giphy stickers, which are flattened and pixelized to be a very fast kind of communication, an instant illustration on a posted story that will probably only be seen for a couple of seconds.

The process to create them as real world objects is much longer, and they require a longer viewing to grasp in person. slowing down time, and pausing the infinite loop… The stickers I chose are from 3D graphics, often generated from algorithms, which not only gives rise to a new aesthetic dimension, but also questions what does 3D really mean? 3D is an illusion- we use our minds to fill in the information from a flat screen of pixels, Even if we observe them in virtual reality. As we use algorithms to develop more complex worlds of communication online, our experiences seem to move at incredible speeds... what happens when it works the other way- what can algorithms teach us when we bring them into the physical plane, slowed down to a human level, and question our relationship with reality in all its dimensions?

💥power- CAC as Olympus I wouldn’t say. Temple of curiosités, maybe. ✴฀Or it’s a photon sphere, infinite rings of light around a black hole. ฀At escape velocity, against the void, I will forever rotate in my complex mirrored colors If the GIPHY loop is a dance, a mesmerizing performance, Then my resulting sculpture is the perfect still, transcendent moment? ⁃ or just a glitched pause ⁃ or actually, frozen time: a level of super positioning where choices can be made, and will is possible. ... “getting my gold, losing my dreams..i become a statue! And there is nothing richer than that” - onio