BIO

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fROM THE PRIVATE SUFFERING IN our DAILY LIves TO THE WORLD-CHANGING EVENTS WE EXPERIENCE TOGETHER, DISASTERs AFFECT US ALL.

 

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

​WE NAVIGATE our ICE FIELDS AND STORM CLOUDS UNTIL we can't, whether THE CONSEQUENCE OF MISTAKES, CATASTROPHIC BAD LUCK, OR THE INEVITABILITY OF TIME. Safety AND stability ARE ALWAYS fragile, our selves DESTINED FOR breakdown and DECAY. 

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THE disasterpiece series ARE MUSINGS about Tragedy AND our responses to IT, ON OUR WAY TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN, THE GRAVEYARD, THE scrap heap, OR WHEREVER WE END UP.

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SOME MEMORIALIZE THEIR TRAGIC EXPERIENCES, OTHERS fantasize. many mythologize.

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often, TRAGEDY iS ENTERTAINMENT, TURNED INTO MONEY MAKING OPPORTUNITIES WITH show times and PRICE TAGS. tragedy can have punch lines. it CAN ALSO BE the catalyst for making art and helping others to survive.

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 - MEMENTO MORI -

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SYL SUYDAM IS A BROOKLYN BASED

PRODUCER, FILMMAKER, WRITER, AND PAINTER

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