Staring at the Sun, 2019
Financial newspaper, archival inkjet and acrylic on canvas
200 x 150 cm
78 1/2 x 59 1/2 in
78 1/2 x 59 1/2 in
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Staring at the sun would blind you and in many cultures the sun symbolises the Emperor or King. The graffiti image of Winnie the Pooh is in reference to the...
Staring at the sun would blind you and in many cultures the sun symbolises the Emperor or King. The graffiti image of Winnie the Pooh is in reference to the internet censorship after an image of Pooh and Tigger went viral when compared to Xi Jinping and Obama walking on the White House lawn. The reference to Pooh here has been updated to reference his inclusion of himself into the constitution that no-one has achieved since Chairman Mao. The building, a holdout house or a nail house is so called due to the proverb ‘if a nail sticks up bang it down with a hammer’. Normally it is the last home to sell in a development and some went viral on the internet due to resisting the developers’ predatory techniques of pressuring owners into vacating. They symbolised the family unit versus corporate and state power. As a result, the censors banned images of Nail houses. The title plays on the idea of blindness and that which provides life. The relationship between power and subjugation in the name of progress.