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Hilary on her work:
The Law of Accelerating Returns describes the inherent increase in the rate of biological evolution with the ever quickening of technology. Technology is the paradigm shift in human evolution, which will transcend biology, merging the reality we know with artificial intelligence, also known as the Singularity.
My drawings depict the aftermath of a population crash, where remains a fusion between cyber-space and hyper-reality. The abandoned post-apocalyptic landscape in the position of regrowth is hemorrhaging consumer goods from the rock-like skeletal system. Evolution is depicted in the layers of rock, along with the gelatinous collaged pieces used to describe tumors growing exponentially. Patterns, which create order in nature, are also essential for artificial intelligence’s recognition and response.
Images and shards from glossy magazine pages are reassembled to remove the familiar pseudo-event, which took place within advertisements and reposition them into a surrogate image within the drawing. Codes in both the striations of the landmasses as well as the programmed spectacle from the magazine pages narrate the future history. The space that remains is the refuge left behind with the disappearance of the human population. The land is continuously expanding with only the instruction and direction generated from its own design, resulting in a mutated environment. The space I propose is a critique of capitalism’s driving force behind the rate of technological developments and the urging of lifestyles that remains unobtainable, existing just beyond reach.
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Hilary… I agree with Jeff. My first reaction when I saw your art was COOL… but when I read your statement… I lost interest, sorry. The art is fantastic tho’
Comment by Marty Qatani — March 10, 2010
Check out Jessie Miller’s gorgeous ocean watercolor paintings. His site is jmoceanart.com.
Comment by Judy Schons — March 10, 2010
Hillary, as a fellow artist, I just want to say that even if your statement of intent is real, true and genuine, it needs retooling. It seems very confounding. I can’t speak for all people, but I just shut down when I read the words paradigm shift, and for the rest of it, it just all bleeds together into an artificial artsie speak mess. Less pontification about your intent I’d say, and just let the art be sufficed unto itself. The art will speak to people better without intellectualization, despite what they teach at grad school.
Comment by jeff — March 10, 2010
Nice color and patterning. Wonderful movement.
Comment by Casey Shannon — March 10, 2010
Not sure the artwork reflects the statement, I think they stand well on their own without all that intellectualizing.
Comment by robert winslow — March 10, 2010
“My drawings depict the aftermath of a population crash, where remains a fusion between cyber-space and hyper-reality. The abandoned post-apocalyptic landscape in the position of regrowth is hemorrhaging consumer goods from the rock-like skeletal system.”
sorry but no one is going to get that from this. I might like this imagery on a Happy New Year’s card. To me it looks like a party.. there is nothing there to represent the fall of civilization. Just another example of how the description is overly inflated to try to justify the artists work as somehow “important”.
Comment by mattgreermusic — March 10, 2010
Wow, did you read the artist’s explanations?
Better still, did you understand it? Looks like an explosion in a gift store blown into outer space. That’s what happens when you mix pseudo science and a empty mind.
Comment by Jim Gibbons — March 10, 2010
I definitely agree with Lauren… the artist’s ideas aren’t really reflected in the art.
Comment by alex? — March 10, 2010
I have to agree with Lauren. When I see this, I don’t really get the full statement you are trying to portray. I honestly see a lot of “stuff.” I do not see any directional statements in this piece that would tell me that this is a depiction of an apocalypse.
It is a good concept though.
Comment by Terri — March 10, 2010
Profound idea, but all I see are two nice collages. I feel too comfortable with this art, while the end of organic life and a post-apocalyptic world would probably feel very UNcomfortable.
Overall, these are just too bright and fun to give me any sense of the discription.
Comment by Lauren — March 10, 2010