Pixels in Bathroom (2016) was a photo sculpture installation in a digital media lab bathroom in Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT, USA), in response to a prompt to make a site-specific installation in my sculpture class. It consisted of stock photos printed in glossy photo paper, some of them folded into cubes that mimicked pixels.
Digital media lab is a building where students come to learn creative technology tools like photoshop, photo printing, 3d printing, laser cutting, and more. I remember spending late nights there staring at the pixelated screens of the computers as I worked on art assignments. In this project, I wondered what it would be like if the pixels came to life, specifically in the context of the digital media building bathroom.
I imagined bubbles falling out of the soap container, a sky falling from the window, goldfish swimming out of the toilet, and trees coming out of the toilet paper holder. In response, I found highly saturated and free stock photo images and started printing them onto glossy photo papers. I folded some of them into cubes.
While doing so, I pondered about the meaning of "stock" in stock photos. I wondered if a paper or a cube could represent some sort of visual capital that can easily be transferred into a space.
