Dahkota Varela


I’m a multimedia artist and hardware designer working with visual culture, 3D prototyping and sculptural approaches to design.  

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Painting-0Acid Etched Mounted Steel Plates 2024







  
A look at ways of capturing small textural surface imperfections and evidence of material trauma and a look at ways to present that compassionately. 



When looking at my projects as a body of work, I tried to imagine what was missing. I had been focused on reimagining functional object archetypes. 

I wanted to see a painting, and I wondered if paintings were functional. I decided they were, but also that the nature of their inclusion implied a lot of things that I simply found exciting and funny.