MOSAIC SERIES

While highlighting emerging cultures and behaviours within the internet space, Rowell presents the series Mosaics. These bodies of work also comment on the importance of archiving events within the internet’s history. For each
of these pieces, Rowel has been taking inspiration from trending comments that you can find on various social media platforms; these comments vary from comical, to weird, to alarming! One of the striking features about comment memes, is the fact that they only seem to be popular for a short period of time, perhaps a couple of months at best, before they are then replaced with the next popular comment to copy and paste. The idea to recreate them as mosaics, is a way to play on the idea of the works being almost archaeological. There are real similarities when you start searching through the forgotten detritus of social media feeds, to digging up the earth and discovering some ancient artefact.

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