My concept of this collection is based on ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business’ (1985) by Neil Postman. “Postman examines the differences between written speech, which he argues reached its prime in the early to mid-nineteenth century, and the forms of televisual communication, which rely mostly on visual images to "sell" lifestyles”. (Wikipedia).

 

As society has abandoned reading and are dominated by mass and social media, the collection is expressed in both a riot of color and also in black. The bold colors are when the lights are on and the carnival of social media and television are prominent, while the black represents the emptiness their heart meets when the lights are off and they are alone.