This piece has been heavily influenced by one of my favourite poems, The Crunch by Charles Bukowski:
"...there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock."
I wanted to create a composition that can accurately portray that isolation and feeling of dissociation. In the age of information and mass-connection, loneliness has become an ironic pandemic. Even though this figure is sitting in something that looks like a padded cell to portray that solitary distance, I decided to not include a shadow on the floor. This makes it look like the figure is floating in space, giving it an even more distant feeling. The idea for the patterned tiles are to create a stimulating effect that connects to the idea of us being stimulated all the time as well.
All in all, though it took ages to complete, it's one of my proudest pieces.
Rodeyo
