Handcraft
Locked in 4 walls, a person is faced with the finiteness of consumption and communication, previously stimulated by the dynamics of life. The narrowing of the living space leads to a narrowing of the information space, now closed on affect and also finite in its diversity. A person is forced to look for new ways of communication in the surrounding space and ways to leave this space.
The path of verbal communication is completely transformed into a digital one: what used to be a convenient addition, is forced to become the only one. Without the possibility of non-virtual confirmation, communication is further based on trust in a technology previously unrecognized. Isolation switching of communication to digital format marks the transition from the living to the dead. A Black mirror simulation becomes a reality, a warden in a new digital prison.
Trying to leave this space, a person turns to camouflage. The invisibility of the most vivid form of the worker and courier, previously considered as a social problem, performs castling and becomes desirable, and therefore visible again. Part of the work represents a new camouflage, invisible for photofixation. The third part, which is a pyramid delivery box assembled from all the boxes and stickers I ordered in isolation, is about consumption. The digitalization of the selection process is completed: consumption is entirely based on the memory of the object. Now we do not see not only the contents of the package (for example, a can of soup), but also the package itself. We are no longer buying a way of life, we are buying an image of an object that connects us to reality. The act of delivery turns into an act of consumption simulation, the main need of which is the materialization of the memory object.
The question of the duration of isolation, although it is a frequent infopod, in fact, is already losing its significance, due to the gradual adaptation to the processes that occurred earlier, which received an unexpected acceleration. One of the manifestations of adaptation in response to satiation from digitalization is needlework, as a way of material communication, subordination of the surrounding space, and as a way of self-realization of an isolated person.
Moscow, 2020