Light of the World Photograph - Limited Edition of 15

A reference to the Holman Hunt’s painting with Jesus holding a lantern, meaning he is the light of the world. But really, it's electric light that is the true illuminant of the world. It changed our entire way of life. We just flick a switch, but it's still a kind of magic. There is a light bulb in California which has been burning continuously since 1910. We only have to replace them because the Phoebus Cartel, comprised of international electric companies like Osram, GEC, and Phillips organised in Berlin in the 1920’s, to fix the life expectancy of light bulbs to a maximum of one thousand hours. The cartel fined manufacturers for any bulbs that lasted longer than a thousand hours, otherwise, we’d never have to replace them. The clock mechanism is from 1920 and still works. The computer parts are from a new Raspberry Pi that stopped working after a couple of weeks. Flowers will replenish themselves forever if we let them. The disabled are now a commodity, an industry has arisen from the need to constantly measure and designate our degree of infirmity (which changes according to how they decide to measure us) all in the name of parsimony.

Photography:Giclée on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:15

Size:29 W x 23 H x 0.5 D in

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