Neon Predator: A Perspective of Light

Installed within a functioning camera obscura, this immersive environment invited viewers to slowly adjust to an upside-down projection of the outside world—a disorienting visual echo of the the individuality of how the outside world can be perceived. As the viewer settled into this inverted landscape, is then exposed to the sudden appearance of a blinding red LED outline—a cartoon wolf from Tex Avery’s animation—ruptured the quiet with aggressive clarity demonstrating how trauma can alter perception.

The piece explores how experiences obscure the world, grounding us in a heavy interior darkness. And yet, within that disorientation lies a duality: trauma can also reorder perception, offering a painful but anchoring sense of what is real. Through animated imagery, gender archetypes, and perceptual inversion, Neon Predator stages a confrontation with the distorted realities we learn to live inside—and the moments that burn through.