Masters Thesis

As long as there is meat today, everything is a-okay

By means of material manipulation and adverse messaging, my work exhibits a critical response to the maleficent control and reliance businesses impose over employees and consumers alike. Through graphic representation and typographic expression I utilize image reproduction techniques and language, tangibly outputting materially driven portraits and visual statements. I employ material, typography and language that interact with one another in a paradoxical conversation. Exploring consumer habits and business omnipresence, which often reveal unsettling subcutaneous findings. Drawing these abundant connections reflects the all-encompassing presence of business. Ironically, the imposed construct of actively seeking connections and contextual relationships through contradiction, language and design principles - sublimates my unavoidable participation within the global syntax of consumerism and consumer design. The illustration and informing of instances takes on various forms: an enigmatic challenge to myself, a parody advertisement in some impressions and in others a historical dialogue and an expressive visual language derived from my experiences in the field.

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