In this day in age, more than ever your attention has truly become something that can be bought. Advertisers compete for your attention in every way they can, and most of the time it’s those with the most money who succeed. Everywhere you go, every time you pick up your phone you see advertisements. Each, and every single one tries to come up with the most effective way at holding on to your attention for as long as possible, they use any means just to get into your thoughts. And frankly, even though we’ve become desensitized to it, it still never fails to unsettle me. As I tried to express through this piece, it feels more and more like everything is just so frantically trying to get you to not look away. In a lot of ways, it has started to feel similar to historical propaganda, how this idea is being drilled into our minds with us thinking it doesn’t even have an effect on us. With the use of modeling paste, I created a texture to the canvases that was almost as if there were many layers of paint on them, reminiscent of grafitti. As if this “wall” had been painted over so many times with different propaganda. Now, this “final layer of paint” has become technological, and so desperate for your attention, it is now glitching out.