In exploring this body of work I have focused specifically on some of the distortions thrown up by the convenience society in which we all partake. At the centre is an exploration of effects that are incidental/accidental to those complex organised human systems which exist as part of our supermodern lives. While the work interrogates these systems in its own manner, it ultimately delights in the distortions they throw up. Much as a disease manifests itself in a series of sometimes unrelated symptoms, the distortions that trigger the work manifest themselves in a series of states such as dislocation, detachment from time and space, logic interruptions and unexplained paranoia.
Zombie focuses in this case on the accident of paranoia, when we are guided by fear and not reason we tend to operate in peculiar ways. This amplifies residual fears or prejudices we may have begun to regard as latent. The distortions throw up by this state of fear can tend to be in equal parts banal and horrific, their effect on our complex organized human systems is instantaneous and all pervasive particularly when you consider we operate in a
media state, where significant events appear to happen in a 24 hour cycle.
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