I read once that the human mind never runs out of storage space – we forget only what we cannot retrieve.

“caught in pointers” is an exhibition of digital print + analog silkscreen based paintings, 3d-scanned & printed sculptures, and painted laser engravings by Andrew CS — created in parallel to their debut album of the same name.

pointers (*) index the world in RAM - we carry them in pockets & phone cases & microphones. throughout our time-paths - unable to collapse the infinity of a moment to megabytes, we form indices of what we cherish. our pointers are the time we can hold in our hands. we turn time on it’s belly & peer into into crevices to find what we hold so tightly. but what is lost in this fallacy, & what do we find in its place ?

the artwork of CiP catalogs records of temporary calm, serendipitously, from a personal archive of media & moments. memory in the mind forms misty trails, but media (ink, silicon, hard drives, magnetic tape, objects) reflect discrete imprints of time & space at a chosen resolution. make an archive of these, and you have a time capsule, a prosthetic memory, or a time travel mechanism. just as memory must define me (as a sum of my experiences) so, too, does my archive define me. I keep it close – an imprint of gestures made, places felt, treasured objects, still listening sessions, observations, time with friends, time to myself. faced with uncertain futures, Caught in Pointers imagines how we may warp personal chronologies into four-dimensional volumes to navigate, reflect on, and engage with using media – a network of imperfect, but well-cherished spaces to reflect & meditate on amidst a busy forward time-path.