Parasitic Capacitance, 2019
In an increasingly digital world, we’re faced with the question: is existence now confined to the pixels of an OLED screen? This inquiry grows more urgent as our dependence on screens deepens, raising concerns about isolation, emotional detachment, and the erosion of global empathy. Parasitic Capacitance explores the unseen systems and subtle mechanisms that shape our everyday digital interactions.
Rather than casting technology as an antagonist to the natural world, the series proposes it as an extension of the human experience—something not separate from us, but born of us. Drawing on visual language from cinematic testing sequences, experimental tools, and specialized industrial equipment, Davidson reimagines what it means to connect in a hybrid world. These works live in the in-between: physical and simulated, artificial and organic, emotional and engineered.
Through a sequential and iterative process, Parasitic Capacitance generates a lineage of images that traverse dimensions. Digital renderings evolve into physical paintings; stones and other natural materials are recontextualized to suggest that even inanimate objects carry frequencies and resonance, just as we do. The result is a body of work that hums with subtle vibrations—visual, material, and conceptual—blurring the divide between the tactile and the virtual.
Davidson invites viewers to consider technology not simply as a tool, but as a medium of emotional and energetic exchange. Parasitic Capacitance does not offer binary conclusions. Instead, it probes our relationship with the digital as something complex, layered, and deeply human.