@johnhns - Solaris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMTt-t6Rewo

A series of images taken from the publication "To be it has nice"., compiled from the Instagram @johnhns.

After a dialogue with the account creator who remained anonymous throughout, a small book was created via email, sampling and confusing the idea of authenticity and authorship.

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

"The routine of instagram postings seem to remix the saturated motifs of hypermarkets and airport lounges, possibly concealing secret signals to the others, obscure messaging on the state of things here, on this planet called Earth. Such clear pools in sunlight almost too warm for comfort, scrolling through pictures tinted in the primary colours of excess, are those zircon collars on 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."