Bubblegum Dystopia
       
     
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Bubblegum Dystopia
       
     
Bubblegum Dystopia

The work from the show hovers in a weird space. A kind of bubble gum apocalypse, a friendly dystopia, it’s Disney meets the war machine. Existing as a form of cartography- the series combines to produce a dream scape universe where things are fine, dandy and sparkling but also suspiciously wrong, disjointed and somewhat sinister. It’s a world joyously overrun with hyper-coloured pop iconography, organised through the guise of scientific planning. The patterned landscapes are created through an internal logic of growth, speed, and replication. Things just float, unanchored a network of connections unto themselves. In this world nature is everywhere and yet nowhere to be found.  There’s something vast and complex about this space but simultaneously simulated, like a computer game. There’s a glitch in the system, things repeat, a fractal deja vu. Everything has become self-enclosed and self-referential, a circuit. A reality where all problems are beyond the screen and consequence has ceased. Information fragments rule in this placelessness.

The work is made up of sets, sets within sets. Distinct yet always implicated in the other, nothing is separate or independent. 

everyseconddividestimesmall.jpg
       
     
fuckyeahrock!!!crazygoood1.jpg
       
     
bubblegum dystopia.jpg
       
     
jleary_img2_bubblegum dystopia (detail).jpg
       
     
be_above_it_small.jpg
       
     
dribble.jpg
       
     
jleary_img7_dribble(detail).jpg
       
     
Shaman_eyes.jpg
       
     
fractual deja vu.jpg
       
     
Dreams_of_day.jpg
       
     
The Cutest Flood.jpg