Teresa Lewis a 41 year old woman with an IQ of 72 having been considered fit for trial in US state of Virginia and subsequently convicted of a double murder has become the first woman since 1912 to be executed in the state. Lewis who had an adult son and daughter was pronounced dead at 9:13pm (local time) after given a lethal injection at Greensville prison where she had been held in custody. She had pleaded guilty to hiring two men in 2002 to murder her husband and stepson to secure the proceeds from a life-insurance policy. The other two gunmen received life imprisonment sentences while Lewis considered the mastermind of the killings was sentenced to death. Lewis admitted she had left the door of the family trailer open to enable the accomplices to enter and kill her two victims.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

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