Irreplaceable Me is a multi-channel, multimedia, personal-documentary piece that addresses the dissonance between mental and emotional trauma through our human ability to represent corporeal processes. The piece aims to represent the often unrepresented:  the emotionally inept, the suicidally-inclined, and those who are in a constant battle between existentialism and suffering. Using a combination of animation, digital, sound, visual, post-processed, and overlaying techniques, Irreplaceable Me is a snapshot of a protagonist’s embodied experience represented through Borderline Personality Disorder. The narrative travels through snippets of his self-reflections in moments of beauty and pain through nonlinear sound and visual compositions in a memory-like, stream-of-consciousness style. Beginning in contemplation, the piece turns to carnival futility, leaving him in the midst of existential nihilism and the unlikelihood of a new beginning. As the protagonist goes through medication changes and severe emotional pain, he finds himself alone, pitted against thoughts and reality. Caught between finding meaning in the present moment and the utter meaninglessness of life, he expresses a universal relationship of paradoxical conflict and chaos reflected in the subjectivity of his mind.

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

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I was born in Milton, Ontario. Currently in my 22nd year, completing a BFA at Ryerson University. I would describe myself as atypically typical, someone who appears normal, but is not. I use my work as a form of self-expression, rather to depict my experience. I've always felt different. Even from those who share the same issues as I do. Whether it be through emotion, self-inquiry, or doubt. I've always told myself that if it were anyone else in my footsteps, they would've been dead. Yet, I continue to live and thus I continue to create. From a little boy to a young man, I continue to push the boundaries of what I call 'myself'.