The Art of Vanity
Live from our current dystopian future
Cardboard
Live from our current dystopian future
2020
- 11"x10"
- Mixed Media on Cardboard
- 1-of-1 Original Work
- Comes Custom Framed
- Customer Responsible for Shipping
$550.00
Listen to my reflection on this work
In 2020, at the height of COVID, we were still dealing with lockdowns, social distancing, and a world that felt like the dystopian future science fiction movies always imagined. By then, I'd started noticing parallels between what we were living through and the conditioning message in A Clockwork Orange. The movie touches on a totalitarian government using psychological manipulation to strip citizens of their agency. I wasn't denying the real dangers of COVID spreading. But after a certain point, it definitely started to feel like a psy op.
It felt like the world was never going to go back to the way it was, and in a lot of ways, it didn't. The uncertainty of it all felt draining and disorienting.