Jaye Rhee’s new digital artwork “Handcrafted Reality” explores the human relationship with digital screens and notions of virtual space. Created during the pandemic, Rhee constructed detailed 3-d objects that assemble to create a fantastical moving tableaux. Recalling early screensaver software and popular computer games in this timely new commission, Rhee's whimsical work alludes to the collapsing boundary between the real and the virtual and captures an essential aspect of daily life that is increasingly spent in front of #screens. The site-specific work takes advantage of the 52-channel network throughout #FultonCenter complex by immersing the viewer in the surreal playland, offering an alternative to the content commuters typically encounter. The artwork is presented for two minutes at the top of each hour, on 52 screens throughout the Fulton Center complex and the Dey Street pedestrian tunnel connecting multiple New York City Transit lines to the World Trade Center PATH station.
