“Life is filled with small moments of readability and compassion that we maintain onto to get by to the following day,” says New York, New York-based artist Jessica Lancaster. “Nevertheless, social media has redefined our 24-hour march by time into ephemeral communications and gestures.” Lancaster’s sequence of work, “Fifteen Seconds,” immortalizes the fleeting documentation of bizarre magnificence made by pals, colleagues, and acquaintances inside her on-line social community. “Based mostly on screenshots saved to my telephone in 2018 and 2019, I returned to this assortment of photos in the course of the lockdown in 2020 to distract myself from the isolation so many people felt throughout that point,” she elaborates. “I paint on glass, insinuating the presence of this materials within the applied sciences we use, equivalent to smartphones and tablets — their dimensions mimicking Instagram Story’s 9: 16 proportions, as these digital screens have turn out to be the conduit for recording and storing human reminiscence.”
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