Consumer zombies, spray paint and stencil on 300gsm paper 500m x 700m.HAPPY CHRISTMAS
Christ with Santa hat points to the dollar & cross bone on his chest, whilst remembering a time before the consumer capitalism holiday.
Merry Christmas and a happy new debt.
CONFESSIONS OF AN ADVERTISING MAN
As a private person I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Manson Avenue, I’m going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motorcycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon. How many juries will convict us when we are caught in these acts of beneficent citizenships? (Ogilvy, Confessions of an Advertising Man, 1963)
UNHEALTHY BALANCE
"DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS"
When its time to eat in the city the world is your oyster...
There is so much choice just because you have been force feed chicken and burgers all day by the big man and his fancy advertising campaign, doesn't mean you have actually eat his shit
BURGER KING
Burger King questions and explores our unhealthy relationship with junk food.Logos and brand identity have been cut from the original bus shelter advertising posters and juxtapose with Eyesaw's silhouette figures to produce a image of ironic truth. "Burger king" suggests that from childhood we are bribed with toys and balloons by greedy corporations in an attempt to gain life long customer loyalty ignoring the facts that this type of food is detrimental to our health.
"THE LAST CAPITALIST"
"THE LAST CAPITALIST WE HANG SHALL BE THE ONE WHO SOLD US THE ROPE" (Karl Marx)
After installing this piece I decided to hang around the bus stop for a while (no pun intended) to observe the reaction of the public, as I sat waiting a elderly couple approached I then over heard the woman say to the man "what are they selling now"to which he replied "looks like a horror story".
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