BIO

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the world is BUILT ON THE ruins of the past.

 

WHETHER THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR MISTAKES, CATASTROPHIC BAD LUCK, OR THE SIMPLE INEVITABILITY OF TIME, TRAGEDY is SEEMINGLY EVERYWHERE—fROM THE PRIVATE SUFFERING IN our DAILY LIves, TO THE GENERATION-DEFINING AND WORLD-CHANGING EVENTS WE EXPERIENCE TOGETHER. Safety is imperMAnEnt, stability as fragile AND DESTINED FOR DECAY as a radioaCTIVE ISOTOPE.

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IN THE DISASTERPIECE SERIES, BUILDINGS AND MACHINES PUMP both STEAM AND BLOOD, FILLED WITH ESCAPING AIR AND FLAMMABLE GASES they NAVIGATe ICE FIELDS AND STORM CLOUDS AND MELTDOWNS, forever MOMENTS AWAY FROM DISASTER, OR ALREADY TRANSFORMED BY IT.

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BODIES AGE, SHIPS SINK, COUNTRIES BURN, AND DREAMS EXPLODE IN STRATOSPHERIC FIREBALLS.
 

PEOPLE MEMORIALIZE TRAGIC EXPERIENCES IN ATTEMPTs TO COMMEMORATE AND ACCEPT THEM, OR MYTHOLOGZE AND REDEFINE THEM WITH strange conspiratorial fantasies. often, TRAGEDY iS our ENTERTAINMENT, TRANSFORMED INTO MONEY MAKING OPPORTUNITIES WITH show times and PRICE TAGS. it CAN ALSO form the catalyst for artistic and HUMORous subversion done for survival, OR COMMUNION WITH OTHERS.

 

ALTERNATELY SOMBRE, SILLY, IRREVERENT, AND EERIE, THESE WORKS ARE MUSINGS ON THE WORLD AND our responses to IT ON OUR WAY TO THE BOTTOM OF THE ATLANTIC.

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SYL SUYDAM IS A BROOKLYN BASED

VIDEO PRODUCER, FILMMAKER, WRITER, AND PAINTER

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