This series conveys the idea of being seen and not being seen. We walk around each other in public, in restaurants, in offices around coworkers and cleaning staff, in train stations, underground passages, as if we don’t see each other. We act as if the other is not there at all, even though clearly they are. Clearly we are standing next to each other, sitting next to each other, and at times looking directly at each other and yet, we are all in our private way having a distinct feeling that we are not being seen, that we are being blacked out. We are not being witnessed. Feeling that somehow our presence doesn’t matter. Even as we are there, others around us are clearly doing the active job/actively of pretending that we are not, thereby erasing us or covering us up in their visionary focus. And this creates a sense of separateness and loneliness. It creates disease and destroys what should be protected.
In this particular series you can see the Customer Information Center, but it’s really just a poster. There is no customer information center. If you look around you, you will see an empty environment with just a picture. The picture itself has gone dark, has gone black. To stand in front of it, it reflects you, but it reflects you in a fading way — as if marking you for going dark, you know? Customer Information Center, where is it? These pieces are to illustrate the idea of being systematically wiped out by your environment, in your mind and the things you do. You’re a customer, but the information is lacking and the center does not exist. If the center is not there, then everything is not there. It is all going dark.