Wallpaper

‘Wallpaper’ I see as both a cultural and social anthropological comment about ‘us’ and the world we live in. “Wallpaper” aims to challenge and question our very existence and purpose for living. I see the wallpaper as a visual metaphor of our day to day life – repetitive, ordinary, endless, on-going, twee. The size of the wall is all important, drawing attention to the scale of the situation – and then there is of course the flat screen TV. The object that is always switched on, the source of all information, the ‘thing’ that is supposed to ‘take us out’ of this humdrum existence but in fact throws us right back into the same world, showing us a fragment of that world we occupy, re-enforcing what we already know - that electronic source of information - across all generations – that comfort blanket.

Eric Snell, March 2009