What’s happening with today’s cultural identity? Like a piece of collage, everything is mixed up.
It’s all coming at you. We are all bombarded with imagery.
Images taken; When, moving in and around our urban environment. Bill board hoardings. Yesterday’s newspapers, magazines, television, etc., are far from ‘gone’ or ‘past’. They exist as facts as well as objects, although the events to which they refer may well have passed.
In a collective sense they remain of our time, all being equally present.
Through ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture, films, magazines, tabloid papers, literature, the Internet and so on, we are given reminders of the past as well as images of the present and perhaps clues to the future. The unplanned and the unexpected juxtaposition of such culturally varied images is, for everyone, a daily experience.
Artists have always described their position in relation to their own times. Knowingly or not they have acted as ciphers, drawing on and reflecting upon their immediate surroundings and experiences.
RESEARCH:
I've edited my research down to a few items in which the artists show pieces that have a wealth of subjects within them.
LOVE THIS!!! (below)
LOVE THIS!!! (below)
LOVE THIS!!! (below)
These images were chosen because, to me, the way they use so many objects combined into one illustrates the idea of image-bombardment. I've seen so many images in my life time. We all have such a wealth of images . But for me they have all become a jumble in my head. My brain doesn't quite know what to do with the overload of information! I picture a landfill of images in my brain that looks similar to Keith Tyson's 'Globe of Shit'. The images in this landfill are not necessarily classed as 'shit', but I suppose the way my brain has decided to throw them onto this pile says something. Not everything goes to the pit though - I know that many, many images remain vivid in my mind. These have their own neat, organised (though usually unlabelled), easily accessible part in my brain.
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