On the Rag Issue 02
“Image Removal: A Market has been Created”
“Pop Art is a spitting image of social media. Like pop art, social media has saturated the world with a low cost mass produced culture of gimmicks that takes on the form of identities with influence.”
An excerpt from Image Removal: A Market has been Created published in On the Rag Issue 02. The essay was originally distributed in an educational pamphlet that accompanied an Uncensored New York exhibition titled “Death of the Subject” at Public Works Administration. The revised version responds to the themes explored in “The Boys Club” exhibitioned at Susan Ingett Gallery curated by Cortney Connolly.
Topics discussed: legacy, flip phones, choke points, human rights, permanent records and two avenues you can take to remove your image from the internet.
Dirty Magazine Issue 08 (2024)
Life in Plastic: Conversation between Samantha Sutcliffe and writer Jack Skelley about his new book Myth Lab
"When I read Myth Lab and thought more about my own work – which is an investigation into the negative effects of economic and social ostracization practices like ‘cancellation’ – and how documenting the alienation of sexuality in my recently published photography series Broken Mirror has shown me how shame can result from perversion. Wayne Hoffman explains in Policing Public Sex that in the 80s the government turned pornography into safe sex education in an attempt to eradicate the culture of sex. This suppression of perversion contributed to the sexual de-evolution. And sharing a pornographic experience with someone feels unattainable. One of the questions Myth Lab poses: Is autoerotica, the act of being turned on by oneself, the answer? Is this how sexuality will evolve? No gender constructs, no physical contact, lots of fucking on VR?"