At the local Starbucks lap top zombies absorbed in their isolated points of wanting pursue their searches. The flow of digital material fills their brains to the brim as they sip their lattes. Occasionally, they stop their googling to gawk at a real person. After this distraction, the siren call of the web pulls them back into their electronic cocoons of inwardness. This constant connection of consumption means one never has to be not satiated. The brain has become the new stomach and we all are obese.

One could even conjecture that the telecommunication revolution has changed our private and social lives so extensively that our inner hard drives have been rewritten. Man and machine have begun to mirror each other. Are we still thinking “straight” or is “matrix” the new language?

By attempting to speak this new image laden language using only the tools of yesterday, this show seeks to raise questions regarding the social and private impact of our new media dominated world. Techniques such as image slippage and context evaporation are employed in this endeavor. Images created with texture and materiality are in marked contrast to those bathed in the seamless glow of the monitor screen. Juxtaposing non -contextual images mimics a channel surfing safari and the jump-cutting mode of cinematic production. The trope of the cut out image reflects the mundane phoniness lurking behind the Hollywood back drop that has become our main street.

True representation in today’s world of relativism is an unattainable mirage. Therefore, this show embraces false fabrication that reflects only too truly the lack of solid ground upon which we now stand in a fakery enhanced world. The false has become our true world.