Josh's profile
I combine a range of media, frequently using drawing, stock photography, publications, conceptual websites, and design. I’m interested in the intersection of images and power, the value of labor, the value of a life, and the value of a life’s labor - or, the things we produce and leave behind and how we find meaning. My work sources and references foundational elements of our globalized visual culture: corporate aesthetics, marketing and visual communication, loss of meaning and hope, and the glorification of neoliberal western standards of taste.
As a digital graphic designer by day, I’m keenly aware of how the stories we tell and reinforce with images are foundational to how we create meaning - marketing and commodity fetishisation, of course, but also less nefarious bases: cultural identities, memories, the books we read and the media we consume, etc. Images (including photographs) are always both true and false. They’re evidence of something, and that something exists between the implied physical spaces and the psychic space of the viewer. That in-between space is what I’m interested in - where something becomes real, and maybe meaningful. I’m inspired by the optimism of the early internet and its focus on empowerment through access to information and democratizing tools of production. In projects like exhibtionspac.es and gallery.institute, my work toes the line between art, resource, digital products, earnestness and cynicism.
As a digital graphic designer by day, I’m keenly aware of how the stories we tell and reinforce with images are foundational to how we create meaning - marketing and commodity fetishisation, of course, but also less nefarious bases: cultural identities, memories, the books we read and the media we consume, etc. Images (including photographs) are always both true and false. They’re evidence of something, and that something exists between the implied physical spaces and the psychic space of the viewer. That in-between space is what I’m interested in - where something becomes real, and maybe meaningful. I’m inspired by the optimism of the early internet and its focus on empowerment through access to information and democratizing tools of production. In projects like exhibtionspac.es and gallery.institute, my work toes the line between art, resource, digital products, earnestness and cynicism.
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