Norwich School
of Art & Design
Adam Brickles
We are bombarded by news that threatens our stability. When we reach a breaking point we seek to escape. I see myself as a visual communicator an ambiguous image or out of context type, the audience is left wondering coming to their own assumptions.
My work focuses on idols and our admiration for them. How they allow us to escape our every day lives. We seem to be concerned for and interested in people in the spotlight. My concern is that we are beginning to live these fantasies more than we - engage in reality. We are enthralled in other peoples way of life and how and where they conduct their lives.
For some, football is the escapism they need, being in a stadium surrounded by people with familiar feelings and view. When you are in the stadium you care for one thing, your side. Effectively it turns into a battle, people becoming threatened and come together becoming ever more passionate, the crowd sings songs and chants as if to intimidate the opposing side. Suddenly what is going on within the stadium and those around you is the most important thing. The day's news has no real significance. The dedicated football fan will work all week just waiting for his Saturday afternoon. His mates are his football crowd when they come together they talk about their team about their players, referring to them by their first names as if they know them. For these fans, Saturday afternoons are for nothing else, they don't care what else goes on in the world they are simply concerned with what happens within the ground.
Contact:
email: Super_Skint@hotmail.com
tel: 07985 471069
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