Reality is displaced by a plastic-fantastic candy-colored parallel universe, through the media explosion that has come to characterize contemporary life. This project's images channel the innards of the Society of the Spectacle: TV studios stage talk shows, game and music shows. Television forms the social mirror that instructs us as to who we are, through a continuous feedback loop. All spaces are transmuted into non-places of supermodernity, like airport terminals, devoid of history, and anonymous. Here the world of mediated imagery that dominates television, and our consciousness, is at its brightest. The styling gives an aura of existing in our time, yet of no specific time. Vibrantly exploding the clichés, it speaks of identity but of no individual identity.

This work looks at a media landscape consisting of entertainment, scripted talk shows and celebrity adulation. After 9/11 theory was declared dead and reality reinstated. That sentiment served as the inspiration for this project and so the airbrushed ersatz universe depicted here is destabilized by terrorists, whose precise role and status, however, remain unclear.