Friends

Friends

I began this piece by logging on to my friends Face book account. Then i began thinking about American and world culture. More importantly, I was looking at the affect that the face book culture had on its participants. In this case I found many disconnections and it depressed me.

my friend only knew(on a personal level) 80 of the 500 "friends" He had on his account.
He told me which ones they were and i painted them in full detail. As he named off more "friends", He realized that he didn't really know them. So I painted those with less detail. Eventually as the portraits moved out, the people just became objects.
They were identified by a movement of my finger digging into the wet paint to form only one characteristic. There souls were shrunk and degraded.

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Tania  Welz
14 years ago
Tania Welz Artist
Finally somebody says something about this misuse of the word 'friendship' or even 'close friendship'...it creates a lifetime to create a real close friendsship and yet facebook is treating this very precious realtionsship with the usual fast food consumption ... great work and ...thank you!
Alexey TEREHOFF
15 years ago
My vote: Masterpiece!
LOZOODISIMONA®
15 years ago
interesting! VOTED!
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15 years ago
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Kalos & Klio
15 years ago
Kalos & Klio Artist
very appealing !

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