in a street BRANDALISM movement (brandalism: vandalism against brands):
More than informing us about a product, the advertiser seeks to shape our understanding of what it means to be happy, beautiful, and successful: What it means to fit in and be accepted, what it means to stand out from the crowd and be our own person, and what it means to have fun.
Advertising is not about catering to existing needs, but creating new desires. Not only desires, but insecurities as well, because we cannot desire without feeling like we lack something. The production process for these desires is never achieved within a single advert, it is the accumulation of countless small, subtle messages fed to us every day.
In doing so, advertising creates new kinds of people. Rather than the advert describing a product, we are the product the advertiser is making.
in the work of a painter
The paintings of J. Kote are symphonies of light and color. They are lyrically stunning and romantic, edgy and current. Kote achieves this delicate balance of seemingly contradictory qualities through his complete mastery in technique, and through years of experimenting to find his own unique style.
in the work of a photographer
or just as a fine piece of music.
All this are MESSAGES.
Look at what Banks & Steelz have to say:
Novus ordo seclorum E pluribus unum
(Out of many, one)
They changing climates
And replacing humans
And fracking soils
While bulldozing forests
But they can’t defeat us
They cannot destroy us.
Are we dreaming the same dream?
(Of money, guns, and gasoline?)
And nicotine for the average teen
But there is a hope. We are the hope.
‘Cause we are
Giant
Giant
With the heart of David, YOU KNOW IT TAKES JUST ONE
What about the out-of-this-planet-message of Jamie xx ?
Planet Earth. Mars. [ ... We are all HUMANS ... ]
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[ the shoot ]
[ the painter: Josef Kote ]