The Meaning(less) Distance

Consumerism has become so built into our every day lives that we don't often stop to think about the affect that our desire to consume might be having on others.  The advertising industry works away at us so covertly that we are able to justify our desire to have the latest as being more important that anything else.

For this series of art works I am using the way that consumer culture has adopted the figure of Cupid to stamp all over its products and services that might have anything remotely to do with love, desire or romance.  The commercialised nature of Cupid offers a very dis-jointed and diluted version of the original myth, often edited down to a mere silhouette.  All of the original depth and meaning is removed in order for commodity producers to fit the figure to thier market demographic.  In this digital and mixed media work I was trying to express just that, the wings or meaning are removed from the body and parts covered up in a type of editin


Photographic figure stock by Devoman1948

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