Borrow & Never Give BackJun’22 -> Sep’23San Francisco, Silo Gallery, Santa Barbara
Borrow & Never Give Back is a cut/paste poetics project grounded in appropriation and remix. Through collaged scam messages, deformed motivational quotes, and repurposed job listings, the work performs a politics of literary theft. The title reclaims a slur against immigrants, those who “steal and never return”, as an artistic strategy. The result: computational poems and visual pieces that scavenge beauty from empire’s debris.