Tyler Grimes
Sound Design
Through a sound-oriented moniker, Min-arp, I experiment with various instruments, softwares and workflows.
Photomontage and Collage
Caloric Cartography
2021 - ongoing
A community-based collage that asked patrons to contribute the stickers from the various fruits and vegetables they consumed.
Through chance operations, the stickers slowly started forming map-like shapes as if to mimic the origin of the consumables themselves. Colorful countries emerge, the white space between becomes water-based trade routes.
The commodification of the planet and its resources becomes apparent through the presence of the barcodes on the stickers.
How do these resources arrive at your local grocers?
Paid, thank you.
Face File: PUNK'D!
2021
A photomontage depicting how language can become a medium
(but also a barrier) between the human and non-human.
The right side depicts when nature and humanity were one, our possible origins in outer space, and how we came to utilize the earth through agriculture. Nature speaks in nonsense-gibberish.
The middle section depicts humanities' first encounters with it's nature-self and how language was slowly formed. Societies and cultures came and went. Eventually came the invention of land-labor relations and over time our dependency on currency... PUNK'D!
The astronaut that has traveled through the depths of language brings back with him concepts of marketing, advertising, subversive cultures, and entire lifestyles based on material consumption. Contingently, he also brings the effects of what these industries and products have on us. Oh, how our pupils reflex to it all.
Have You Seen Me?
2020
I documented the various scooters that people leave around town in an effort to raise awareness on their materiality and temporality. I appropriate the aesthetics of posters used to document missing persons as if to anthropomorphize the scooters presence around town.
This is an ongoing series also influenced by the Viceland series Abandoned in its commentary on similar topics of the places and faces affected by modernity.
All photos were shot on a one-day disposable iPhone 7.
Have Me Seen Me?
2021
An extension of the "Have You Seen Me" series above -
Inspired by dada-esque photomontage; part self-observation, part societal commentary - it questions what each person
leaves behind as culture eventually collapses in on itself.
What bought us here in the first place?
Have you seen you?