deresolution: an urban parable

Things move fast in twenty-first century Los Angeles, and Renzo's life is all about speed.       A traditionally trained painter turned digital artist, he spends his days on the technological forefront of internet design, and his nights submerged in the fast-paced, sensual decadence of the Los Angeles club scene. His lifestyle has its emotional and physical costs, but the benefits are considerable: abundant pharmaceuticals, an über-attractive demographic, and the narcissism of residing on the cultural edge. Los Angeles can be both vivid and spectrally opaque, and Renzo speeds along its surface like a drop of oil on newly melted wax.       Sleepless nights, fueled by the city's raw electricity, are followed by days racing along the technological edge, and, inevitably, the pace begins to take its toll. One particularly long night ends in a charged encounter between he and his best friend Katie, and something very important happens that he cannot later recall. The resulting personal fallout of this event, coupled with the perpetual velocity of his lifestyle, accelerates his internal and external conflicts toward a dangerous critical mass. Lost and alone in the city's terrible brilliance, Renzo will face a reckoning of his deepest fears.       We are all haunted by ghosts. When city streets become vast and unnavigable, and the outside world is little more than a furious blur, how does a man find his way through the storm without becoming one of those faint specters, an incorporeal being that haunts the periphery of this world or the next? Like a modern-day parable, deresolution delves the answers to these questions, illustrating how a soul survives in the kinetic maelstrom of our current age.