Continuing the series of pictures appropriated from moving imagery found on TV or the Internet and then re-photographed with a large format camera facing a large screen. After Nineteen Eighty Four, I call these images: ‘Telescreens’.

NB. Presentation of the ‘Telescreen’ images via a computer or phone screen sometimes causes stroboscopic anomalies, especially in pictures where there is sky, or a consistent area of tone or colour. These lines & shapes do not appear when the pictures are printed, anachronistically… on paper. Standard print width is 140cm.

The series began in 2012, under the title of ‘FakePhoneyReality‘. The pictures were a response to the exponential supply of imagery online or Television and their revelation of a threat to the idea of an impartial reality. The imagery channeled nostalgia, shifting social mores, cognitive dissonance and a growing sense of uncategorisability.

A second look at the same territory 2018 / 19 was called: It’s all about the image; what you see is what you see – inevitably prompted by Trump’s first term in the White House and Clay Shirky’s 2008 ideas about tech’ – that “When you change the way people communicate, you change society”. The pictures focused on impending doom, collapse, war, the dark side of fame – and a sense that Debord’s ‘Spectacle’ had metamorphosed into being and ‘reality’ really was now fully subservient to its representation.

This new series feels overdue and only now aware of its slow timing, or arrival, which somehow reflects my belief that the society I live in, is similarly placed & playing catch-up.