SCENE 30

From a series of 10 Airbrush paintings done in 2015 that talked about a shared human creation myth.

When they were painted it felt a very optimistic time for me. It was bright, simple, felt a lot more free. We had climbed out of the crash. Instagram was young.

Now is a darker time than then.

The knowledge and connectedness we now have feels cloying, like a cloak over everything, the hyperawareness we now all possess limits us.

The internet’s promise of free and open access by all has been upended, leading to polarisation, illness. Connected but atomised—everything is polarised, everything is political—there needs to be more focus on the interconnectedness of everyone’s stories and the grey areas that we all exist in, it feels like a different world to 2015.

This is a reworking of those original pieces, that lie in stasis in my studio, for a new time, with new knowledge and perspectives, as we now truly live in a digital age, I felt these paintings could speak to that.