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(Personal Attention)

Heyyy Baby…..

In the 1940’s “Lonesome Gal” Jean King purred across the Dayton, Ohio airwaves to thousands of devoted listeners; 80 years later millions of hours of role-playing “personal attention” videos populate the internet. (Personal Attention) explores a shared need, evident across decades, to feel as though someone is with us and that we are not only noticed, but welcomed. A tension exists between physical and digital, sensation and illusion - the suspension of disbelief and a moment of dissonance. What do these brief, frictionless scenarios offer, and how much does it matter, if at all, that the intimacy is only imagined?

Touch Screen, oil on linen, 1500x1200mm, 2021

Touch Screen, oil on linen, 1500x1200mm, 2021

Oil on linen, 1500x1200mm, 2021

Only the Lonely, oil on copper, 600x600mm, 2021

Only the Lonely, oil on copper, 600x600mm, 2021

Oil on copper, 600x600mm, 2021

TV Dinner, oil on copper, 900x600mm, 2021

TV Dinner, oil on copper, 900x600mm, 2021

Oil on copper, 900x600mm, 2021

Looking at the Back of My Head, oil on copper, 900x600mm, 2021

Looking at the Back of My Head, oil on copper, 900x600mm, 2021

Oil on copper, 900x600mm, 2021

The Opposite of Sensation, oil on copper, 300x600mm, 2021

The Opposite of Sensation, oil on copper, 300x600mm, 2021

Oil on copper, 300x600mm, 2021

Soft Encounter #1, oil on copper, 300x400mm, 2021

Soft Encounter #1, oil on copper, 300x400mm, 2021

Oil on copper, 300x400mm, 2021

Soft Encounter #2, oil on copper, 300x400mm, 2021

Soft Encounter #2, oil on copper, 300x400mm, 2021

Oil on copper, 300x400mm, 2021

Only the Lonely + Lonesome Gal Dayton / Adelaide, installation view

Only the Lonely + Lonesome Gal Dayton / Adelaide, installation view