Unmaking with Lanka Janek, is a collection of objects designed and fabricated by an avatar. Addressing the narrative of identity as both performed and embodied, oppressive and freeing, this work asks questions about aesthetic hierarchies, authorship and personal permission. Arising from the necessity to make with a decolonized approach. I, Kris Rumman, found myself carrying learned aesthetics through the glass world that prizes hyper craftsmanship as a singular mode of value. The creation of Lanka Janek, functions for me as a mode to challenge these learned standards. I reinvent ways of making that divorce planning and premeditation, traditional finishes and subverts object based markets by embracing improvisational, responsive methods that exist on online platforms. Utilizing the imaginative space of the digital environment we set out to create new avenues for making, supplementary archives and invent alternative histories.
