mo-sys - Field Notes and Studio Journal

Frameless and the Immersive Image

Authorship, Circulation and the Immersive Image

Frameless in London describes itself as a space that “showcases some of the world’s greatest works of art presented in ways never seen before. Where a...

Reflecting on Ghosts

Ghost story

https://mosys.art/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/found-footage-v-small.mp4 Late last night, walking the beachfront promenade at Lee-on-Solent, I...

Consuming Aspiration

Identity and the Machinery of Want

The Culture of Becoming The self-help industry sells improvement. Not in the quiet sense of growth, but in the endless choreography of becoming: more ...

Identity on Subscription

the Alpha as Myth, Market and Mask

Introduction The alpha male archetype has long been held up as an aspirational model of leadership – bold, dominant, charismatic, decisive. Dra...

From Raid to Retail

The Sanitisation of Viking Atrocity

Over the last few weeks, I have been researching the origins of the corporation as we know it today. I traced its roots back to 1600 and the East Indi...

Intent and Interpretation of Symbols

Shop Mannequin as symbol

  There is a recurring symbol I use in my practice which is a high gloss fibreglass mannequin. I rescued the mannequin on the final clearance, an...

What does art mean to me?

Framing subjects with intent

As I went about my week, I wrestled with the question posed by our tutor: What does art mean to me? At first, in my journal, I wrote a list of words &...

I Rebranded Myself as a System File

My name was already taken

My name is Mark O’Connor. It’s the name I was given, born into — but it’s not the name I create under. There are already Mark O’Connors establis...

It began with a fold in the page

The ticket that collaged me

I was first introduced to collage not through image, but through text. In 1986, I came across The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs in the ...

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