Mindless Pleasures
The 'Mindless Pleasures' series is based on Thomas Pynchon's novel "Gravity's Rainbow." Pynchon's themes of the individual subjected to surveillance and control by government power in the service of corporate interests has become startlingly relevant. My approach to the complexity of the subject is to break it down into discrete works that examine the minutiae that percolates to the surface, affecting people's everyday lives (be they fictional or otherwise). The novel's truly post-modern complexity also serves as a way to introduce personal political concerns into my painting.