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@johnhns
To Be It Has Nice


Out Of Print
£20

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@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.  This resulted in a book created via email, sampling and confusing the idea of both owner rights authorship.

 

@johnhns claimed to be located on Solaris, "To be it has nice," explored the voyeuristic consumption and imaginings that Social Media both enables and encourages.

 

Communication and interaction has changed since the publication in 2016, with AI generated text, images and voices that interact and manage many of our daily activities, a 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 hypermarkets. and airport lounges. Possibly concealing a secret, signals to the others obscure messages on the state of things here on planet Earth. Such clear pools in a sunlight almost too warm, pictures tinted in the primary colours of excess or are those just zircons on the collars of the 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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