Photo Journal Monday: Bridget Lai
© Bridget Lai
Images and Text by Bridget Lai
Photo Edited by Yanting Chen
Bridget Lai is a photographer based in New York whose work is primarily collaged self-portraiture in which she assumes the role of a girl between modes of work and play. Her pieces ask how coding labor via cuteness can affect it’s visibility, and how entropy plays a variable in its relationship. In 2022, Lai received her BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design.
The second thermodynamic law states that entropy - the degree of disorder within a system increases with time. Considering the tendency towards disorder and chaos, “Entropy” analyzes current labor systems under a capitalist economic framework, and the growing condition scholars name “Capitalist Realism.” More specifically, how the prominence of cuteness as distraction increases with the degree of chaos. “Entropy” is a body of photographic collage that conveys chaos within a closed setting, and an exaggerated visualization of it. The pieces depict a singular space in multiple frames collaged to expand and imagine the setting beyond reality.
© Bridget Lai
© Bridget Lai
© Bridget Lai
© Bridget Lai
© Bridget Lai
© Bridget Lai
