Tonight it rained in my soul Print

Instagram rots the soul –artist mocks the impermanence of screen selfies Richard Adams — not that one — an artist who is not a digital native has mocked the obsession with getting digital perfection and mock emotional support ‘Likes’ from Facebook-owned Instagram. Richard has created a series of antithesis Selfies which chart his health crisis and slow recovery in 2018. Yorkshire-born Adams almost died in 2018 — and developed techniques to explore his fear, his darkness and his slow recovery in a series of amazingly haunting A-Selfies to show how imperfect and awful life actually is. The Series of A-Selfies mirror some of the great art works which came from the pre-digital techniques of artists who had deep, mental health problems – like van Gogh and Munch. In the commercial period now when some brands, like niche cosmetics company Lush, are withdrawing from social media to concentrate time & money on other ways to promote and develop their relationships – The Adams Show mocks the obsession with Likes and Engagement. Richard said “Digital techniques to mock digital obsession with photo-images and their manipulation have given me a real drive to show how pathetic social media have become. We are all here today and gone tomorrow – and so are social media.”