Anno Domini gallery

First, I enjoy mixing those pop shapes with a more figurative central element. I have always liked both abstract and figurative / pop art, and now I try to mix these influences together.

Second, we live in a world where the information flow has become unbearable. I have read a study stating that due to new technologies, our brains have changed in the past decades : indeed, we are getting more and more efficient at dealing with multiple tasks and very fast stimuli but less able to concentrate and focus over a long period of time. From this perspective, those aggregating shapes symbolize the accumulation of information, an accumulation until meaningless. When everything becomes equivalent, insignificant.

Third, those scattered fragments aggregating around a body or a piece of land is a representation of what I feel about nowadays' world, which is literally falling apart. Ok, it sounds trite, but I am really scared by the daily spectacle of violence. And I am not talking about war, but ordinary violence. Just watching the traffic in a big city is overwhelming. The way people behave when they are behind the steering wheel speaks for itself. There is also the deterioration of basic moral values (it seems the new trend is to pay homeless people to fight each other and post the video on internet... Just one example out of many others), not to mention the ecological decay and so forth. At some point it feels like the world as we know it is soon going to implode, and those abstract bits, although cheerful, materialize this oblivion threat that surrounds us. They represent the few seconds before and after the implosion, a blank space filled with bits of past, present and future. In a nutshell, a kind of "Pop Big Bang"." - Benjamin de Brousse