Installation featuring individual various pieces connected by the theme of 'DOOM' for ellO gallery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA. January 2008.
I feel the term DOOM can apply to the obviously evil things that happen like war, genocide, terrorism, etc. However I believe it can apply to things that may not seem evil initially but slowly reveal themselves to be major problems. Two issues that I feel fit this mode are massive wealth & overpopulation. I’ve tackled both these with the hanging fabric photo-montage transfers. Whether you are rich or poor I feel it’s rather unnecessary to have an excessive amount of children, though for the poor it’s often out of necessity because of high child death rates. The two collages illustrate the international wealth game using snips of advertisements for luxury watches for the Arab market merged with portraits of 2 different types of Arab businessmen, the more traditionally-dressed and the more western-dressed. The sense of DOOM comes not from being Arab, has absolutely nothing to do with Islam and has no racist overtones whatsoever. It just seems the worldwide push for luxury & wealth is in full speed and jet-setting Arab businessmen are especially good at flexing their monetary muscle. Also part of my DOOM-scape is a plush lion whose face has been hacked off and replaced with a flowing veil of cast-off fabrics. The lion is sitting on top of a mountain of leftover remnants of glass & ceramic cups, plates and etc., bringing up a third harbinger of DOOM which is actually 2 issues: consumerism & consumer waste. A final item is the “wallpaper” behind the entire installation which is of the popchart phenomenon the Pussycat Dolls, though their identity is slightly obscured. One could say they represent DOOM for pop music though they generally are using the same tricks that have worked for years and therefore are feeding into DOOM by sticking to a successful formula that generally benefits a very small group of people.
I feel the term DOOM can apply to the obviously evil things that happen like war, genocide, terrorism, etc. However I believe it can apply to things that may not seem evil initially but slowly reveal themselves to be major problems. Two issues that I feel fit this mode are massive wealth & overpopulation. I’ve tackled both these with the hanging fabric photo-montage transfers. Whether you are rich or poor I feel it’s rather unnecessary to have an excessive amount of children, though for the poor it’s often out of necessity because of high child death rates. The two collages illustrate the international wealth game using snips of advertisements for luxury watches for the Arab market merged with portraits of 2 different types of Arab businessmen, the more traditionally-dressed and the more western-dressed. The sense of DOOM comes not from being Arab, has absolutely nothing to do with Islam and has no racist overtones whatsoever. It just seems the worldwide push for luxury & wealth is in full speed and jet-setting Arab businessmen are especially good at flexing their monetary muscle. Also part of my DOOM-scape is a plush lion whose face has been hacked off and replaced with a flowing veil of cast-off fabrics. The lion is sitting on top of a mountain of leftover remnants of glass & ceramic cups, plates and etc., bringing up a third harbinger of DOOM which is actually 2 issues: consumerism & consumer waste. A final item is the “wallpaper” behind the entire installation which is of the popchart phenomenon the Pussycat Dolls, though their identity is slightly obscured. One could say they represent DOOM for pop music though they generally are using the same tricks that have worked for years and therefore are feeding into DOOM by sticking to a successful formula that generally benefits a very small group of people.
