‘When they came for me I Felt Nothing…’

‘When they came for me I Felt Nothing…’ (2020, mixed media on paper)

It Wasn’t the best day to put aside to photo-document my new work (lighting is terrible), but anyway…

If I’m to condense this work into one subject, ‘‘When they came for me I Felt Nothing…’ ’ is about an experience of desensitisation, likely caused by the anxiety and over-stimulation that is intensified by living in a time defined by communications technologies, and social media.

I was going to write much more, but it felt better here to ask others to discuss about their own experiences about desensitisation, the desensitising cycles of anxiety and addiction, in this kind of world, and also their thoughts/experiences about what Mark Fisher called ‘reflexive impotence’: where an assumption that we can’t do anything change to change our world, becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy making us unable to act; which has not only has political consequences, but also personal/mental health ones.