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@johnhns
To Be It Has Nice

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@johnhns - To Be It Has Nice

@johnhns

To Be It Has Nice

​Waugh Office Publication 2016

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A small publication of images from Instagram page @johnhns compiled by Julia Waugh after a dialogue with the account creator who remained anonymous throughout the process.  This resulted in a series of works made via email, sampling, remixing and confusing the idea of authorship.

 

Claiming to be located on Solaris the book explored the voyeuristic imaginings Social Media both enables and encourages.

 

Communication and interaction has changed since the publication in 2016, with AI generated text, images and voices that manage many of our daily activities, our sense of reality is steadily evolving. The current concerns over technologies impact on people's personal and leisure time seems an aside as we now move through synthetic and actual environments without noticing.

"The routine of instagram postings seem to remix the saturated motifs of airport lounges and security guarded hypermarkets. Possibly concealing a secret, sgnals to the others, messages on the state of things here. on planet Earth. But why are the pools so clear in sunlight that seems almost too warm? Pictures tinted in the primary colours of excess; are they real or zircons and on the collars of those kissing borzois?

 

Green splash, black square a speck of dust magnified and repeated in empty rooms. Why are two dots inside a tin of paint, their edible colour make the poisonous look organic, is that how they like it over there, up there on that milky globe.

 

I was just thinking to be it has nice, a hiccuped poem in scrambled sentiments for a click through indifferent user. Cigarettes, fingers dry with blood, come free in eggshell blue with 9 likes on Monday.

 

There is so much deceit in semaphore, that shows us not how or where is the way. Street signs ground control, screens to watch a world through, mixed up binary coding slack to the hardness in soft lines."

To Be It Has Nice

@johnhns

Soft Cover 

Size: 20x28cm

44  pages

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