Talking about Rodin's "Gates of Hell" sculpture, Albert Elson said in his book on the artist that "mankind was adrift in an empire of night, separated from, rather than being victim of, it's deity, born with a fatal duality of desire and an incompatibility to fulfil it, damned on both sides of the tomb to an internal hell of passions."
These dystopian images are a form of found Décollage that uses the symbolic forms of fly posters to reflect this duality of desire and unfulfillment in modern society. Photographing these provocative symbols is an act of cultural re writing where the structures of mass media culture have been re shuffled and re inhabited by a type of cultural iconoclasm that questions the authenticity of the objects of our desires and asks, are we damned to our own hell of passions?
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