This shot is probably my favorite amongst the pictures I took for #ULImages in the wild because it highlights the plagiaristic ideals of appropriation and looks at the idea that nothing in the art world is truly original and that, to an extent, every creator appropriates in one way or another. The fact that the image is of an image that is of an image and, to me, this is kind of a metaphor for the ‘dog-eat-dog’ world of capitalism and our world saturated with media as a whole. If this is a representation of the media that clutters our peripheral vision every day we leave our abodes, is it any wonder that the modern individual finds themselves riddled with anxiety and fear for the future? If, in the back fo their mind, there is always this idea that if you don’t fight for your place in the world then you will be consumed by it.

This photo I chose from the ones under #ULImagesinthewild because I find it contrasts quite well with my image. I find it quite ironic that the image is urging the observers to ‘Open their eyes!’ when it is taking its place amongst it subliminal cousins in the advertisement along the walls and windows of the high street. But perhaps that is the heroism of this image, in that it provides an obstacle to the complete brainwashing that our capitalist media-saturated society would like from us? It sticks itself beside hundreds of adverts that would have corporations drain us dry of time, currency and life whilst all this image wants from us is to ‘Open our eyes’.