An interdisciplinary artist seeking to create stories that personify, anthropomorphize, and illustrate living beings and things; traversing realms of magical realism, mythologies and folklore derived from historical, scientific, virtual, and imaginary sources. These stories of humanity and nature seek to understand the potential for symbiosis, or the complete parasitic takeover. Other concepts seen in works include existence inside a plane of space that may not always make sense, worldbuilding, childhood wanderlust, and the body inside and as a landscape.
Works are created in bricolage-style sculptures of gathering reused and recycled materials, primarily presented in miniature scale. Videos and digital works are conceived with similar processes of reusing old media with collage-like mentality.
Roy Cannon-Berg (Roy Vessil) was raised in Santa Barbara, California, and currently resides in the Santa Barbara County.
yor.vessil@gmail.com