Strangled By Content

Do you sense it too? The gradual suffocation creeping into every aspect of our lives. Regardless of whether you’re an artist, musician, chef, designer, or simply a casual social media user, the feeling persists. Despite our best efforts to fortify ourselves, we still find our thoughts manipulated and our perception of reality distorted by the ceaseless deluge of “content”. Algorithms in harmony with meticulous data mining built by psychic engineers who want nothing more than to corral you into an identity that they’ve crafted to satiate your innate desire to fill the infinite emptiness this capitalism paradigm will never truly nurture within you. That is their only goal: To confine us within identities tailored to perpetually chase fulfillment in a capitalist world that can never truly satisfy our deepest yearnings.

Amidst this suffocating labyrinth of data and algorithms, there exists an intricate web of ethereal forces and abstract cogs within the complex machine of capitalism and technology. Yet, no single individual steers this chaos machine; rather, we are symbiotically spinning the gears, unwitting participants in a system designed to perpetuate itself. Our actions, reactions, and interactions fuel the ever-turning wheels of this machine, each contributing to the collective momentum that propels it forward. The designers, engineers and passengers are all coalesced into a singular self creating death machine.

If you resonate with this struggle, then what better way to push back against the suffocating grip of the capitalist machine destined on choking the life out of you than by supporting me through purchasing a print you just stumbled upon on social media? It's a paradoxical reflection of an artist's attempt to critique the flaws of capitalism and technology while using technology to capitalize on it themselves!

18”x24” Giclee print on cold press natural paper

Archival, acid free, %100 cotton rag, 340 GSM weight paper with a natural textured finish