I Will Find

I Will Find (2013)

In February 2013, I made daily artwork that responded to research of people’s interactions across as many online platforms as I could think of. I searched for kindness in the most contentious online discussions. Did kindness change anything? How much hostility would I have to sort through to find goodness? Each day, I searched for one source interaction, then made one artwork based on the source. I documented the experiences throughout the month, and concluded with 28 new artworks.

From my 2013 internet-based project, “I Will Find”

“Well (Nailed it.),” 2013, encaustic on panel, 4″ x 6″

“What isn’t obvious (do you need my help?),” 2013, encaustic on panel, 11″ x 8.5″

“The exact same (I feel the exact same way),” 2013, encaustic on panel with archival digital print photograph, 8″ x 10″

“Said, sincerely (My tiny blackened heart breaks),” 2013, encaustic on panel, 12″ x 12″

Ruiz-Kim, “Here”, 2013, encaustic on plaster form, 3″ x 4″ x 4″

Everything, 2013, archival print still life, 8″ x 10″

Screenshots from the website (now found at www.iwillfind.wordpress.com). Showing: the About page, a sample page from one of the 28 daily posts, the intro post about the project, then four end-of-week recaps along with a few in-between posts.

Source text compilation, “I Will Find” project, 2013. Comments from news articles, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube; forum chats from mental health support, a journalist’s website, 4chan, and Stormfront.

MARITZA RUIZ-KIM

I Will Find

I Will Find (2013)