Art Feature – ‘eternal wading through unblemished waters’ by Mark Wilson


Artist Statement

“eternal wading through unblemished waters is a series of digital art pieces documenting our collective mental and physical journey towards undisturbed stagnation. Our journey no longer requires motion. It isn’t hiking in a remote forest, a road trip, or time spent with loved ones. It requires no intellectual wandering either. Our great expedition is being pulverized by pointless celebrity gossip while we drink a lukewarm energy drink. Our voyage is not one of self-discovery, it is a perpetual need to consume as much content as possible. To move from one piece to the next without inheriting anything in particular, simply filling our nutrient deprived stomachs with enough blue light to inherit the illusion of satisfaction. Our journey is our limp hands pushing around a cursor or our withered fingers swiping into oblivion.”


Mark Wilson is a Chicago based writer/visual artist driven by the same crippling monotony experienced while watching a piss soaked snow mound melt into the pavement at a strip mall parking lot in Northern Indiana. His art focuses on the passive consumption of content as we lose all memories into the blue light. He strives to be the mouse cursor guided by your limp hand as you click an indistinguishable calendar reminder at a job you hate and take another gulp of stale bath water while your spine collapses another few centimeters into an ergonomically designed chair. Create nothing. Consume everything.  Follow him on Twitter: @toadswiback
You can find more of his work at onetie-alltie.com.