The “Overwhelmed” series is a commentary on the ever increasing and oftentimes overwhelming nature of technology in the modern world. Each piece is designed to make a stand-alone statement on man’s increasing dependence on technological gadgetry and gizmos, while at the same time, the human component becomes a smaller piece of the larger picture. Careful observation of individual assemblages will reveal obvious visual jokes as well as hidden elements played across the vignette presented.
As an example of this, “Drowning Man” literally presents a small figure overwhelmed in an ocean of emails striving to hit the DELETE button while the six emails displayed at the top are a sequential correspondence between our “Drowning Man” and another individual as they discuss their plans for the construction of a "Time Machine" for personal enrichment.
It is that “push/pull” relationship between man and his technology that I hope to convey, sometimes cynically, sometimes, I hope, humorously.