Purple Light or An Evening Glitchness in The West features highly recognizable source images such as popular 20^th Century advertisements and movie scenes featuring prominent western actors, inviting viewers to indulge in a moment of nostalgia with hopes of evoking an emotional response triggered by a yearning for times and places of the past.

Source materials are run through a modified video mixer creating saturated colors & lo-fidelity textures that are not present on the original materials. With these manipulated images, Corbin invites audiences along as he explores surrealistic thoroughfares & unlocks alternate realities.

Consisting primarily of western related imagery, Purple Light establishes a sub-genre of the Glitch Art movement the artist calls “Western Glitch” and simultaneously encourages viewers to ponder what “The Cowboy” represents and means to them related to the subjects of Iconography and American Identity.

Purple Light pays homage to an eclectic list of artists ranging from Cormac McCarthy to DJ Screw. Additionally, Corbin ironically sources & manipulates images by artist Richard Prince, creating a runway for discussion around the topic of artistic appropriation.

Many of the video-based pieces in Purple Light are intended to be presented on CRT televisions, which prompt audiences to ponder the roles Photography and Television play in Art History while at the same time activating feelings of sentimentality for the outdated technology that many viewers likely grew up with in their homes.