ABOUT DAVID DEIGHTON
Experimental Art, Dialogue, and Division
Contemporary Art and Political Perception
David Deighton is an experimental contemporary artist known for Triptych Dialogue, an evolving body of participatory artworks exploring dialogue, political polarization, perception, and human connection.
Through sensory storytelling, public interaction, film, photography, and installation, the work addresses complex social and political tensions while encouraging reflection and direct engagement.
Triptych Dialogue and Public Conversation
Art as Face-to-Face Engagement
Deighton’s triptych works function as invitations to pause, reflect, and engage beyond the noise of digital culture.
Rather than remaining passive objects, the artworks encourage people to speak with strangers, confront difference, and participate in direct human dialogue.
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Dialogue Beyond Online Polarization
The project shifts attention away from algorithmic outrage and online fragmentation toward face-to-face exchange grounded in listening, presence, and shared experience.
Sensory Storytelling and Participatory Art
Challenging Perception Through Art
Across video, installation, altered books, podcasts, projection art, and public interventions, Deighton examines how perception, belief, and mediated realities shape contemporary life.
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Art That Provokes Reflection
The work is designed less to provide answers than to provoke questions:
about truth,
division,
technology,
listening,
and civic participation.
​​​Explore the Work
Contemporary Art Across Multiple Forms
Explore projects including:
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Triptych Dialogue
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Views from the Cave
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Dialogue Recordings
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Pinhole Project
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Triptych In Vivo
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Land Skeins
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Active Listening Across Political Division
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Begin from the Homepage
The homepage functions as an entry point into interconnected projects exploring dialogue, perception, sensory awareness, and public engagement through contemporary art.
Related Projects:
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Triptych Dialogue
Explore David Deighton’s participatory contemporary art project examining political polarization, dialogue, perception, and human connection.
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100 Podcasts
Listen to conversations and interviews exploring active listening, civic engagement, contemporary culture, and public dialogue.
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Book Burning
An experimental short film exploring censorship, disinformation, perception, and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave through the symbolic burning of Sartre’s Huis Clos.
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Lying MAGA: The Disinformation Game
An experimental media project examining political memes, online echo chambers, disinformation, and the emotional mechanics of digital belief systems through the framework of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.
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Dante’s Paintings
See works on paper created under the name Dante, combining abstraction, watercolor, ink, and layered human expression through mixed media.