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- W657890652 abstract "The project is focused on my interpretation of my workaday experience, my attemptto navigate the many layers of the retail space of the supermarket, and the enigmaticlandscape of the suburban environment. My premise is that retail and suburbanenvironments can have a dehumanizing effect on the individual. Elements such asalienation and dislocation move beyond their supermarket and suburban associationsto permeate my observations. My work is reflective of this process. The paint appearsbleached, having a sterile quality reflecting the effect of the supermarket and suburbson my emotional state. The fluorescent lights of the supermarket and the whiteconcrete of the suburbs reach out and become part of my imagination, sapping colourand forcing me to rethink the relationship between the built environment and my self.During my time as a worker in the retail environment of the supermarket, I began toexperience a questioning process that led me to this investigation. Mentally I had tooccupy an expressive space in parallel with my workaday experience. This dualexistence of working and observation and interpretation of my workplace, helped meto make sense of the issues around alienation and desolation I experienced in thesupermarket. The project allowed me to occupy a point of observation. I realised I hadan opportunity to maximise my investigation by developing my ideas in an academiccontext, and voice my experience and outcomes through painting and writing.Through my art I attempt to make sense of environments that I perceive as being inopposition to my sense of humanity. These spaces challenge my ideals around therelationship between human beings and their environment and I therefore see them asan ideal subject to develop my ideas around sense of place.I believe contemporary urban spaces can affect a sense of dislocation from society.The products of many modernist artist and writers such as Walter Benjamin’s ArcadesProject, John Steinbeck’s Hour of Pearl in Cannery Row and George Orwell’s utopiaunder Big Brother in 1984, Albert Camus’ The Rebel and John Paul Sartre’s Nauseahave been inspired by this experience of dislocation. I find parallels to these ideas inthe abstract expressionism of Mark Rothko, and the eerie, melancholic environmentsof Paul Nash and Andrew Wyeth. The social commentary of Richard Hamilton andAndy Warhol anticipate the absurdist turn to postmodernism, which is further filteredthrough the social positioning of critics such as John Ralston Saul, Christopher Laschand Paul Virilio and mediated through Jacky Bowring’s writing on melancholy. Irefer also to the social irony of artist Jeff Koons, selected enigmatic landscapes byBill Henson and the washed out paintings of Luc Tuymans, Fiona McMonagle andJon Cattapan. My own work is positioned in this reductionist style to comment on thealienation I have experienced through contemporary consumerism and my transitionfrom passive worker to active observer." @default.
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- W657890652 title "The shock of the now: Retail space and the road to nowhere" @default.
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