Jay in Mundane | Space
Jay in Mundane | Space: Portraits of Jamal from a few years back, quite a few years ago looking at that ancient Samsung Z400 slider phone (he was texting constantly), a pair of battered Nike Air Max Tn’s and a JD Sports bag from the 2006 FIFA World Cup. I remember that look.
Control: Gone are the days when you could walk in to a Burger King, KFC or McDonalds and the manager would happily allow a photoshoot in the restaurant. We did all three. Jamal looks like he’s in another place. He was half listening, one earbud out, to The Streets third album ‘The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living’ on the iPod. He fell asleep in the car on the way back to Crawley.
2020: So much has changed, our relationship with technology, obsession with creating, sharing, controlling images of ourselves and others. I’d like to restart the portraiture, pickup where I left off following themes of the domestic and mundane / dressing for pleasure / identity / fantasy / obsession / repetition / voyeurism / the absolute and total surface appearance of things / thresholds of abstraction…quite a handful then, always playful. Outputs: to be determined. Would anyone like to COLLABORATE / EXPLORE / MODEL?
