Let's All Abandon Reality Together

"Let's All Abandon Reality Together" reworks a meme that circulated in early 2023 during the "Chinese spy balloon incident." The slow drift of a Chinese surveillance balloon across U.S. airspace, its exact purpose still undisclosed, further unsettled an already fractured nation in the wake of COVID-19. The work reconfigures the meme using an artist-made 3D model of the balloon and suspended surveillance rig, built from reference images, with the original text replaced by the exhibition title. As a cover image for the exhibition, it reframes the incident as an invitation to enter and depart the confusing, alternate realities that have been inhabited by us all.