Jonathan Paul

Addicted At Birth 

Mixed Media 2012

 

The piece is a sculptures there are 3 babies, each one is on its own I.V the first I.V says "PRADA" the second I.V says "TOM FORD" and 3rd on has the "GUCCI" label on it. the babies are lying in their little hospital beds.  The first baby bed sheet have the text Prada covering the whole sheet and its black and white. The second baby bed sheets also has Tom Ford text written all over it and the sheets colors are black and gray. The Third  has the label Gucci all over her sheets is colored pink and the text are in white. The back ground is just full on gray.

They are new born babies, They are still in hospital because their still in the hospital beds and their on I.Vs. It reminds me of babies, and how their pure and innocent. 

 The sculpture explores contemporary desire and things that the generation now are obsessed with, which is fame fashion and money. He conveys fame thorough the famous brands Prada, Tom Ford and Gucci these brands are well known by celebrities and other well known people. Fashion is also convey in the same way, these brads are also well known in fashion because their mostly evolve around fashion, and also money is also convey this way because their really high brands which apparently means high value which over all means a lot of money.

But the main issue that Jonathan is showing in his work is how we are influenced to such things. The figures of the babies represents how innocent and unconscious we are and not realizing how much we are getting sucked in to point less things.The I.V's conveys the idea of drags, and we all know that drugs are additive and their irrelevant to our life's but people still take them because their addicted to it and wasting money by doing so. 

Over all this peace talks about our corrupt society and that we don't see it. We are prematurely exposed to thing that will harm us and that will destroy us when the day comes, I see his work as a wake up call to socity and us individually to see what the problem is and try and control it.