Ghosts
A symbol for the interconnected globalist.
The intention was to establish a primitive figure or primitive man for our new digital age. Aesthetically then, the work reduces itself to a symbolic quality and carries several traits:
-The individual and group floats in space to describe the lack of physical ground in the digital realm,
-The dotted head suggests an 'intellectual*' connection in the digital stream and
-The physical black box with buzzing wireless signals suggest this new individual fully immersed in the digital medium.
This work, essentially, says that we are all connected.
Although one can justly relate this work to Keith Haring's work(which i am a big fan of), the dotted head and black box mechanism seems pertinent to our contemporary setting and can be considered an update or addition to KH's own universe. Like KH who was seeking a 'global man' for his time, the work seems apt on its own to describe a 'global digital man' or the 'ghosts' that permeate our digital landscape.
1. On our Street Art work.
This 'ghost' inflects himself onto the physicality of the urban environment to describe a potent symbol to the 'hidden' frequencies that connect our understanding of the city--that the inherent homogeneity of typical urban experience is reflected in our digital mechanisms our digital avatar our digital toys and ultimately physical self. That is, through our 'street art' work, one becomes critically aware that he is simply not alone, despite what his physical senses may tell him--there is always a frequency intersecting and hopping over him, a CCTV to record his movement, and the constant neon glow of the computer to comfort loliness. Thus, the work is a 'symbol' to our contemporary digital and wireless age.
2. On our Hand Made Limited Edition work.
Our painted/limited edition work pushes this idea further, examining customized mass productive processes to suggest the inherent similarity of the 'ghost'(the printed image) but also a celebration of the idiosyncrasies and uniqueness of each physical output. Essentially, the symbol repeats itself but the process of production intentionally differs to describe an instantaneous 'similiar/disimiliar' quality of a singular paintings versus the act of mass production. This juxtaposition seems appropriate to our intentions for 'custom mass production' and relates well to the algorithmic potential and pattern-making that is a critical aesthetic of 'Ghosts.'
