HYBRIDS
My paintings are HYBRIDS, a term I coined to describe the interdisciplinary processes that define my practice. Rather than existing within a single medium, these works emerge through an exchange between painting, photography, video, environmental processes, and material experimentation. At the heart of this approach is an ongoing investigation into the tension between control and surrender, exploring how images, materials, and memory are shaped as much by what is present as by what is absent.
My hybrid practice explores themes of time, perception, and embodiment. These concerns are rooted in early experiences of displacement and transition, moving from upstate New York to rural Virginia during a formative period, surrounded by vast, untamed landscapes while navigating familial absence and change. That sense of solitude, wonder, and impermanence continues to echo throughout my work.
Process functions as both methodology and metaphor. In my HYBRIDS, I often invite environmental forces such as sun, rain, snow, wind, and chemical reactions to leave their imprint on the surface, allowing time and weather to become collaborators in the making of each work. Within my lens-based practice, I employ cyanotype, indigo dyeing, and other light-sensitive processes to capture ephemeral traces, marks that hold memory without relying on a fixed subject. Across mediums, these methods foreground transformation and transmission, turning each piece into a kind of dispatch, a message shaped equally by the hand and the environment, intention and chance.
Rooted in personal history yet attuned to broader material and temporal ecologies, my work seeks to hold space for what has been lost, remembered, or transformed. Influenced by art history, speculative fiction, and emerging technologies, I create quiet, contemplative works where painting, photography, and installation intersect, spaces in which past and future, presence and absence, agency and entropy can coexist.
For inquiries regarding available works, please contact:
joy.tirade@gmail.com