Terracotta, mixed media

16” x 9” x 15”

2020

The flood of information drowns you – news, social media, and endless streaming of digital TV. It’s easily accessible, personalized to your taste, and completely irresistible. Its goal is to monetize your attention, and it has already hijacked nearly all of your free time. You struggle to keep up or carve out private space. The writhing pose and the defiant look suggest that you are not yet ready to drown complacently in this flood. Yet the arms are missing, symbolizing constrains to your escape, to the point of hopelessness. Is the willpower a life preserver enough to save you from drowning? The red and white valve wheel looks like a life preserver, but on closer inspection it is more like a horse-collar meant to weigh you down and reign you in—into the torrent of digital content. The valve seems to have only one option – to ‘open’→ – but can it close to switch off the flood?