[1] Davis began exhibiting in the mid-aughts, working at the intersection of digital technology, memory, and pop culture.
In 2006 he built a public recording studio at a gallery and paid visitors to sing the Beatles song "Yesterday" from memory.
[4] As Davis told the BBC, The Composites used "forensic art software, descriptive prose, with crowd sourced feedback, to create portraits of literary characters.
[citation needed] After relocating to Brooklyn with his wife, the novelist Emily Schultz, where the pair co-founded the literary website Joyland: A hub for short fiction.
[8][9] When Schultz regained the rights in 2019, she and Davis produced[10] a scripted podcast adaptation starring Madeline Zima and Rob Belushi.