Human versus machine has been an ongoing investigation. We, as humans, use the creation of the machine as a form of communication. In Tiffany Trenda's work, you see the world as a constant flux of man and machine separating and touching as one individual object of desire with hopes, fears, concepts, ideas, and revelations. Her work generates an apocalyptic connotation. She remarks, " We are all bodies of flesh and a network of information. We are our own puppeteers cloning our existence and our own death." She is not a cyborg, but rather a human expanding her body as a statement regarding our future existence inside the framework of the interface. In summary, the interface is an extension of the body.
In her work you begin to notice an optical illusion, a blurring between man and machine. " I began to melt the distinction." She creates a digital environment that combines mechanical and organic material. In creating this mixture, she establishes a sense of death and life as an artificial reality; a surrealistic influence. She explains, " The interface is so powerful as a consumption, and a desire, that it starts to erase the human touch and begins a process of death. We give life to the machine , which is, in reality, our death. This disconnection consumes us as a powerful mechanical force that we initiate. We create and destroy in unison as both creation and destruction. We control the interface as it controls us."