Multiple Selves (2021)
3D Digital Sculpture
‘Multiple Selves’ is an exploration into Phelan’s digital self and her online representation. These abstracted digital bodies have been textured with images of the artist's face taken from her social media platforms. Exploring themes of identity, ‘Multiple Selves’, represents the fragmented narratives that we build of ourselves online, while questioning their validity. Concerning the virtual and the corporeal, and the possibilities for collision and interaction, this work is interested in bridging the gap between the physical and the virtual.
Phelan’s work is informed by the research and writings of Arthur I. Miller and Mark O’Connell’s explorations into the realm of transhumanism and techno-singularity, as she dreams up a world where our bodies are augmented by technology, making them inherently gender non-conforming, just as these digital avatars are.