Jonathon Downing

Distortion

My series of paintings aims to explore the link between an increasingly digital age where social media is utilized to gain power in our social hierarchy, leading to memories becoming detached from objective reality. Through the use of family photos, social media posts and memorable sporting events, I intend to portray this juxtaposition between the memories we hold and these captured images. Photos which are posted to social media in particular, which should represent this objective reality, end up being less reliable than physical photographs and create a fight for recognition online. This constant distortion of our memory and social hierarchy will be contemplated through the use of digital and physical image making processes which mirror the juxtaposition of these memory capturing methods.