As technology gets even more sophisticated, where does that leave our hands? Who will make things when neural links are set up in our heads to AI & images, things are produced by machines.
Where does that leave us but on some zombie wasteland riding through entertainment as the new source of cultural sophistication. The fairground, as the new resource of education.
I’ve always liked zombies, the metaphors & cultural readings of our current day being. A ‘thing’ that exists in nowhere & somewhere at once, a George Romeroian nightmare of consumerism & existence. Neither dead nor alive, this body, a decaying body just wanders. Wanders through the suburbs, the malls & in in our living rooms as entertainment. Apparently, zombie’s do ‘really’ exist. A friend of mine told me about a zombie gardener in Haiti who would never stop cutting the grass with a lawn mower until you told him to stop. Like he would cut right down to the topsoil until one intervened.
This space of in-between, neither dead or alive is an interesting area within our current interesting times. A thing, a monster, a human wandering the internet looking for more image to visually consume, a consumption based on desire for more entertainment.
What has the hand become, just another digit amongst the binary matrix within the digital metaverse of zombification? Or does it still have some other value than just swiping left?
‘The Hand Job’ an in-between work that mixes the digital & the analogue. One part digital animation & the other part, a laborious rendering of a drawing in ink & watercolour. Now put up in the ether for all to digitally consume. A hand job giving pleasure to all that wish to be visually consumed (by a zombie).
