Jawbreaker,
2021
Jawbreaker renders a domestic interior where surfaces ripple, patterns waver, and objects dissolve into the surrounding space. Figures appear in partial echoes, layered across the composition like memories arriving out of sequence. The room is neither stable nor chaotic, but held in a state of quiet distortion that resists easy interpretation. Color and pattern work against one another, creating subtle disruptions in depth and orientation. Williams allows these ambiguities to accumulate, inviting the viewer to experience the interior as something shaped by emotional and visual residue. In this way, Jawbreaker becomes a reflection on how familiar environments shift when filtered through memory and time.
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Artwork is printed edge-to-edge. No white borders or framing are included.
Tyler Cala Williams (b. 1996 Trenton, New Jersey) is an American artist based between New York and Savannah. A graduate of Parsons, The New School (BFA Photography, 2020), Williams creates surreal self-portraiture and imagery charged by their community and culture, through using digital software like Photoshop to address appropriation in Western traditional art movements and the nuances of the subjugated Black.
Williams describes their practice as a process of remembering: memories that, like photographs, are both truth and construction. In their words, “I believe the surreal scenes I create are like the act of remembering. It looks far removed from reality because memories are never really fully truths. I believe memories are tricky and are like photos in their reliability. They are both representations of something. So for me, the dreamlike quality of my work is from my memories taking new forms.”
