Adewole Louis

Parking lot, Satellite, Hailstorm

"Enormous signs in vast spaces at high speeds"Robert Venturi, Learning From Las VegasIn this work, I explore how digital images shape meaning and the structures behind the interfaces we navigate. I chose an event from the early 21st century that I experienced through screens, and therefore through the image. I placed it within a three-dimensional context in which material and form speak to the experience. The sky within this form illustrates our current reality, which functions through illusion. The Windows XP background, an image of a sunny day with scattered clouds, is sinister in its mundane beauty. The moisture released by the atomizers flows through the cutout in the acrylic and condenses on the front surface of the glass, highlighting the image's limitations. It reflects our broader relationship to technology, in which we willingly trade labour, touch, time, or contemplation for enhanced abilities and speed.