“I Drank It and the Day Changed Colors” is a symbolic representation of the layered construction of fantasy in South Florida, examining how its paradisiacal tropical image often obscures the artifice of its provenance. The installation consists of a two-channel video projection and a sculptural element, inviting viewers to navigate the fusing of material, fragment, and illusion.

The primary projection displays composite images of pink hydrocal casts of miniature Greek columns set against abstracted photographs of a South Florida highway. These fabricated "ruins," interpolate classical architectural forms with the present-day infrastructural sprawl, blurring temporal and aesthetic boundaries. The secondary projection, positioned at a 90-degree angle, disrupts the seamlessness of the first. Its ruptured imagery reveals the mechanics of its construction, exposing voids and inviting contemplation of what lies beneath the surface. A sculptural component, constructed from recycled upholstery foam and neon glass, extends this inquest. The foam, eroded and textured as if decayed, houses neon light from within, suggesting both deterioration and an uncanny allure. The pink and purple monochromatic palette amplifies the surreal, seductive atmosphere of the installation.

By layering fragmented forms and revealing hidden structures, the work reflects on South Florida as a space of perennial reinvention, a landscape built through calculated artifice that masks its inherent precarity. The installation unravels these layers, questioning the tensions between permanence and illusion, spectacle and reality.