Statement

We are interested in the influence of the media and technology on society - its role in our perception and relationship with the real world.
The technique of collage is at the heart of our work providing an essential metaphor for individual constructs of contemporary reality. With the sheer amount of information available it becomes impossible to process leaving the individual to take fragmented information from the media/internet, assembling the parts to construct their own often distorted vision of the world.
Our recent work begins with an old master painting (representative of a standard cultural value) which is then subjected to reinterpretation by sourcing hundreds of fragments of found photography - mostly from the internet, which are blended together with photoshop to create a new reality mirroring the loose connections made every day by individuals navigating their way through their world.
History, myth, news, gossip, personal experience and emotions connect to create a fragile and surreal concept of reality.