Watson
art + photography
cleared, original artwork
Toronto-based, since 2000
Let's Panic Art + Design is the cousin of WTSN Art + Photography featuring a mixed media combination of paint, collage and text. Let's Panic attempts to bridge the divide between art and music where text replaces lyrics and colour + form replicates the tone, mood and dynamics of sound. The idea of synesthesia - or the condition where sounds are heard as colours - factors into the artwork as does the text cut up technique of Tristan Tzara and Gysin / Burroughs which is incorporated to produce a variety of results such as song titles that don't exist, twists on cliches and ad slogans, Beat poetry, things overheard in passing, bots conversing with bots and / or your inner dialogue while looking at art.
Hannah Hoch vs experimental techno vs Stuart Davis vs shoegaze vs Pierre Soulages vs dub vs Richard Hamilton vs goth vs Manolo Millares vs industrial vs Robert Rauschenberg vs electro vs Jamie Reid vs hip hop vs Gerhard Richter vs art rock vs Barbara Kruger vs punk and post punk vs Painters Eleven vs disco vs noise vs ambient