MAKE A PAPER AEROPLANE, AND WRITE YOUR GREATEST FEAR ON ITS LEFT WING.

Lucy Carter.
2009.
www.lucycarterartist.co.uk
lucyart@hotmail.co.uk

Tom Morton’s appropriation of Paul Thek’s writing, reignited a fear in me that I have had for quite a long time about modern culture. As a society we are not shy to let people know every detail of ourselves and the internet only encourages us to do so. Our information is passed around from one ‘reliable source’ to another until our lives are everywhere; passwords, bank details, personal information etc, information that we would not of dreamed of disclosing in the past. Large companies use the information to ‘help’ us buy better (translated: help us buy more, from them…now!), the banks use our money to make choices to better our future, investments to change the way we live. They did.

My biggest fear is the lack of control we have. The more information we give the more isolated, it seems, we become. People are becoming more and more selfish and far too materialistic. What I aim to do through this piece of work is to illustrate my fear using real money, money I could spend but instead choose to display in the way of an unpredictable paper aeroplane. I cannot control the direction they choose to fly…