mandamonius in the house of the flying internets (AKA amanda wood or the artist formerly known as amanda wheeler)

OMFG! (neon sign) and Elaborate Hoax (thirteen variously destroyed paintings).
OMFG! at C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, 2009. Group show with Adam Cruickshank, Hit & Miss, Rob McLeish, Dell Stewart, Kotoe Ishii, Simon Pericich, Emile Zile. Co-curated with Dell Stewart.
OMFG! was foremost an investigation into the subjective nature of offensiveness, combined with the sometime related aesthetic of DIY. In a world where big culture costs trillions, is cynically target-marketed and controlled by even bigger economics, the individual artist deciding she or he can brazenly contribute to culture on their own divisive terms is tantamount to fucking revolution. (via @darren)

Can I just give a really fucking huge HELL YES! and maybe even a fist pump to this.  I love scripty, lurid neon signage.

See also: Hopscotch Films logo which has a slightly geometric yet scripty feel to it (look ma, I’m trying to describe fonts!).  When I was a kid I used to write my name in script as one word (amandawheeler); when I’m rich from clocking the internet & writing several best-selling-though-not-truly-understood novels I will have my name spelt out in a neon sign just like that.  Now you know.

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