Hyde & Hyde

April 2022

still image 3D composite

17 x 22 in.​

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Growing up simultaneously in American and Gujarati communities, I became frustrated with the two ways my name was pronounced. As a result, I sometimes experienced emotional and mental constipation, and I became uncertain whether I was evolving into the individual I strived to be. To stop living two lives, I think it would be better to live where they both exist. I now live in the hyphen. The hyphen is represented by the physical location where Hyde & Hyde stands: the entrance to my neighborhood. Home is where I am inherently more Gujarati, outside of home I am inherently more American.

 

Hyde & Hyde is the premiere character for my long-term series, The Hyphenverse, a speculative world that blurs the line between the digital and physical realms with the employment of self-insertion and emotional abstraction to determine the "real" from the "reel." 

 

Sculpted in Mudbox. Retopologized in Maya. Textured in Mari. Rendered with V-Ray via Maya. Background image captured via Canon EOS Rebel T8i. Compositing completed via Nuke.

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Exhibitions

Art + Tech Fest, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL, Sept. 1–29, 2022, curated by April Cluess

FAC 302: Fall 2022, Fine Arts C Room 302, Gainesville, FL, Dec. 3, 2022, co-curated by Komal Goswami and Alex Mendoza

World Builders Inc., Gary R. Libby Focus Gallery, Gainesville, FL, May 4–6, 2023

Goblin Mode, Moisturizer Gallery, Gainesville, FL, Apr. 29, 2023 – Jun. 17, 2023, curated by Dessarae Bassil