Mad as a cut snake in a proverbial mythological prison
bill lane

Mad as a cut snake in a proverbial mythological prison

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Medium: Digital Collage

Style: Contemporary, Realism, Surrealist

Type: Paper

Year: 2024

61.0 x76.0 x0.2 cm


Artwork Details

Bill Lane constructs a densely packed, hyper-saturated photographic tableau from the discarded plastic detritus of late capitalism. Anchoring this chaotic field of deep blue netting, gears, and fragmented toys is a distorted, green masked visage whose segmented yellow tendrils mimic a posthuman Medusa, gesturing toward Lane's ongoing interrogation of masculinity and consumer spectacle. Grounded in Object-Oriented Ontology, his constructed composite image treats these mass-produced remnants not as passive refuse, but as active, autonomous participants within a darkly theatrical landscape of material excess.