{"id":78,"date":"2025-06-25T10:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T10:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/?p=78"},"modified":"2025-06-25T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T10:49:07","slug":"nuclear-sale-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/nuclear-sale-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Sale! (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fieldwork"],"acf":{"artwork_title":"Nuclear Sale! ","medium":"Digital Montage","year":2025,"dimensions":"tbc","artwork_statement":"<strong>Conceptual Overview<\/strong>\r\nNuclear Sale! captures a disused billboard overtaken by nature, with peeling text that still screams EVERYTHING MUST GO! . Behind it, the blurred image of an explosion - flickers through the decay. The piece plays with the brutal absurdity of retail slogans when recontextualised in a setting of apparent catastrophe.\r\n\r\nThe work echoes a language we\u2019re conditioned to respond to - urgency, clearance, finality - but now detached from any functioning economy. The consumer is absent. The sale has passed. What remains is the detritus of desire.\r\n\r\n<strong>Material and Visual Strategy<\/strong>\r\nThis piece continues my exploration into discarded commercial environments. In this piece I have dropped the mannequin - a recurring proxy for the human subject and I have focussed more on the context of the language. \r\n\r\nThe surface of the billboard is distressed and cracked; it\u2019s not a fresh intervention, but an old broadcast still clinging to relevance. The surrounding vegetation adds to the sense of entropy and nature\u2019s quiet reclamation.\r\n\r\nThe piece is designed as a site-responsive proposal, suited to installation on abandoned retail or commercial structures. It engages the environment to amplify its message: that the marketplace continues to echo, even when the audience is gone.\r\n\r\n<strong>Reflection<\/strong>\r\nNuclear Sale! consolidates themes I\u2019ve already worked through in Central Line and other installations: the collapse of identity into commerce, the haunting persistence of marketing language, the aesthetics of abandonment.\r\n\r\nWhat\u2019s different here is the removal of the body. The mannequin is missing, and with it, the intermediary between viewer and message. This absence allows the work to shift fully into aftermath. It's not a portrait of commodified life, but a landscape after it - an image where desire has outlived the desirer.\r\n\r\nThis piece helps clarify how visual strategies like decay, erasure, and repetition operate in my practice - not just as formal gestures, but as conceptual tools. I\u2019m becoming increasingly interested in the space where communication breaks down: when the advert no longer works, but still won\u2019t go away.","feature_image":79,"themes":["Digital Collage","Text"],"custom_slug":"","":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}