Shopping has become the Great British past time of choice.
We’ve ceased to be citizens and are now just consumers.
I’m questioning how we’ve become so complicit in this.
What it says about our capital and the cities’ rich/poor divide.
I got out on my bike and began exploring how shopkeepers’ personalities and design sensibilities impact our visual world.
London is the tower of Babel in reverse - people come from the furthest corners of the planet unified in the language of commerce.
There’s preciousness in rendering the shops in fine bone china, contemporary yet instantly nostalgic - each an exquisitely hand made object.
In 200 years time its going to look exactly the same, but it is instantly broken if you smash it.
I couldn't have used any better material to preserve and represent a snapshot of London today.
Every one of these unique signed shops is for sale during the exhibition - explicitly blurring the lines between art and commerce.
You can’t look at the tower passively - it forces you to confront where you fit in to this hierarchy of consumption.
We’ve ceased to be citizens and are now just consumers.
I’m questioning how we’ve become so complicit in this.
What it says about our capital and the cities’ rich/poor divide.
I got out on my bike and began exploring how shopkeepers’ personalities and design sensibilities impact our visual world.
London is the tower of Babel in reverse - people come from the furthest corners of the planet unified in the language of commerce.
There’s preciousness in rendering the shops in fine bone china, contemporary yet instantly nostalgic - each an exquisitely hand made object.
In 200 years time its going to look exactly the same, but it is instantly broken if you smash it.
I couldn't have used any better material to preserve and represent a snapshot of London today.
Every one of these unique signed shops is for sale during the exhibition - explicitly blurring the lines between art and commerce.
You can’t look at the tower passively - it forces you to confront where you fit in to this hierarchy of consumption.