Still in the Garden
Contemporary Western Society is now unable to view anything other than through the lens of a previously mediated memory.
Life is no longer experienced first-hand, but as a diluted version of a fictitious "other". Doing has been replaced by watching and emulation. Reality has been taken hostage by fantasy and simulation. The virtual is embraced in preference to the actual. Experience is now relative not absolute, and is measured against the yardstick of the screened image.
It is the screened image that now illuminates the gloom of contemporary life, offering a route to contentment but acting merely as a votive to the shrine of consumption.
Based around the concept of the slideshow, "Still in the Garden" was created in an urban, garden location and explores reality, simulacra and spectacle.
"Still in the Garden" comprises 5 prints and 7 minutes of video.