Lawrence Nash RWA
All Rights Reserved Lawrence Nash RWA 2023
About the work
Computer Generated:
The promise of technology toward a utopian future has seduced us all, but we are
now thrown far beyond this 'innocent' glamourisation of progress, for within such
glamour lies deception.
It is this deception that is used as a starting point for
the work.
Using a video processing unit, the images are generated by a feedback procedure.
The initial signal being lost to a spectacular series of errors, which build and
build to produce extravagant images of colour and texture.
This language based on
'errors' is used as a parable of the political state enveloping mass culture and
the individual self.
On the surface the images are luxurious, glamourous and glossy
; the viewer is absorbed and tempted by the pretence of superficiality.
But psychological
conditions and states feature as a subtext ; feelings of isolation, possession and
disorientation.
With titles such as 'Spy' or 'Mute' these seductive images deal with
the 'soul' taken from the self, being accepted, nurtured and celebrated, as bogus.