Future Headspace is an experiment in memories not yet made; experiences that one dreams about, as if happened to the ‘other’ self, but realised days later as happening in the real world to ones conscious self. My aim is to challenge the orthodox concepts of truth. I hope to establish in all viewers the possibility that everything is true, (as well as the possibility that nothing is true; but if that is true, that ‘nothing is true’, then that in itself cancels itself out, leaving only the possibility that ‘everything is true’, plausible) and that all perceptions are as integral to the constructs of human reality as a total unified theory of understanding; understanding nothing has as much clarity as understanding everything.
Having recently acquired a studio, the first time since leaving university 10 years ago, I had many ideas of work I wanted to create. With too many ideas and not knowing where to start I decided to restrict myself to 3 key themes that I kept returning to over the years:
- The Eye
- Iconography
- Text
The objective was to make a body of work that interweaves these themes from different perspectives, so that the individual pieces exist in their own right but have a connection to, and dialogue with, all the other works.
Having an interest in graphic design and the cultural impact of symbolism and the semiotics of logos, I approached each piece of work in the same way I would respond to a design brief; overlaying multiple meanings and conceptual suggestions in simplistic, easy to replicate, images and messages that are mobile, translatable and internationally recognizable.
My current work will be on display in studio 302 at the Parker Street Studios ( 1000 Parker Street ) for the Eastside Cultural Crawl.
My recent explorations discuss the repetition of archetypal religious imagery and the resulting disassociation of subject and meaning. I find it whimsical that once upon a time repetition was used to enforce and underscore dogmatic traditions, but now only serves, in my opinion, as an analogy of our contemporary acquisition of a copy & paste culture.
Tradition and modernity are very rarely mutually beneficial, and as our whole world is governed on the presumption of archaic religious ideologies, the Modern is at odds with the paradigm within which it exists.
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