A piece designed to articulate the severed sense of interpersonal connection on intimacy-centred digitital platforms. Despite the potency with which it might seek to simulate or substitute for reality, the desire to be immersed in our desires, to be fully 'consumed' by our most heartfelt perversions... we are always (eventually) awoken back into our 'real' three-dimensional existence. As famously put by Shakespeare, 'the eyes are the window the the soul', and in this piece the viewer is presented with intimate access to the subject's oral orifice, but is simultaneously denied a 'soul' to connect with. The QR code-covered eyes enhance this denial and also question of whether a 'connection to the soul' is itself much more than a personalised 'optional-extra' in a society dominated by digital consumerism.

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Materials: Acrylics, gesso on 18"x24" (46cm x 61cm) stretched canvas