MMD-103(Psychedelic nature-invisible fear of atomic energy) Painting

The media produce and commercialize more and more fascinating images to satisfy the needs of the dulled public with the quantitative repetition of stimulation. I have made it my task is to try to understand how the stimulation of mass media images distracts people from real content and makes it harder for them to sympathize with the pain of others, whilst attempting to interpret how the public responds to them, and using my chosen medium to remove and hide negative elements to expose the viewer to what is happening. My works of art reforms the content from the real cruelty of the media displayed, and through this, it paradoxically maximizes the position the media portrays for the public consuming the image. My works are an exploration of the extremes that the modern deluge of media can have as an effect on the audience. It creates a delusional state where those experiencing the images or media that they are given become dispassionate about its content. This then creates the role of the media as the spectacle peddler and the audience as a consumer of this. To be exposed to the tragedies of the world but without emotional traction with what is taking place becomes the experience average consumer. These issues are expressed in the work by taking modern media images surrounding major world events, such as the shooting of ICBMs by North Korea, and turning them into visually appealing cartoon paintings. They become visually appealing spectacles of real world disasters that the media has continuously exposed to the public. I started originally exploring these ideas in 2014 when I was studying in the UK. Whilst living with students in my dormitory and the internet failed for a week. We left the dorm and bumped into a lecturer who informed us that there was a terrorist incident in which a man was killed with cleavers. Later, I learned that this was the murder of Lee Rigby. At the time people from group I was with wanted to visit the crime scene because of the boredom brought on by the lack of internet. I recall feeling that there was something very wrong with the idea that needed to seek out a tragic event to break the boredom they were experiencing and this become something I went on to explore. There is the idea that this disaster porn becomes the normal way to deal with the events that unfold in the world. I raised this with my tutor and he recommended the book by Susan Sontag “Regarding the Pain of Others” and from this I learnt more about how people are using the tragedy to become a fashionable thing or as a form of entertainment. From this I began to think that people require spectacle, they actively seek it out and need it. The real content inside the image doesn’t matter, they seek it to be entertained by the spectacle. From this I developed the view of what the extreme of this would look like. Where would the end for this be? How could it look taking this idea to extreme? Is there a point when you try to make a disaster visually appealing that it breaks experience? When an audience experiences this I want to explore what their reaction will be and to see if they realise what is happening in front of them. To see how they will respond to images they have likely seen before on news channels and websites, but presented as something entirely new. I think that there needs to be questions asked about how the public experiences media and how it relates to events that are taking place. We need to explore the questions about the need people have to be brought into the 24-hour news cycle and lurch from one catastrophic event to the next.

Painting:traditional colour pigment on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:826 W x 51 H x 0.1 D in

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