Test Card

100 x  66 cm
acrylic & pencil on canvas
 
When the test card comes up you knew the show was over. It was the end of the entertainment. It was a reliable signal that there is no further viewing, it’s over and time for bed. End of information. But not so with the endless scroll. Twenty four hours of media streams on brain numbing repetitions. We cannot move away, transfixed by the high definition, hooked by the details that we cannot see. Time better spent immersing in the solution to the quasi dependence to the live someone else’s life. All the pulp is sold and bought as pacifying endless bland trivia streamed and binged watched mini series’ which is downloaded to the app to stream on your phone 15cm x 7cm touch screens. The advantage being you can watch it whilst you are crossing the road. With the test card there used to be an end….We can only seem to experience life events with the copy of a phone to replay and post and share that special, once in a life time moment, until it becomes mundane. We experience this at a distance not looking beyond the screen, believing what is sent to us from unscrupulous means. As time has persuaded me we are disconnected with truth. Aware, but not concerned enough to change. The damage all this lethargy has caused. Pull your finger out! Pull your socks up! Drop your cell phone and bring about the change.