self-congratulatory nonsense is a solo installation by Joshua Elliott. All art stands on the
embers of an old idea, waiting to be consumed by a change in social tide. We spend our
lives filling white rooms with personal furies, childhood intimations, and portrayals of
imposed self-importance. Walls become tightly packed with alternate realities, lit with
sterile beams of hope. It is a place unregulated and impossibly personal.
We project an image of ourselves in the mirror each morning, mentally masking and emotionally
processing, as we see fit. The change for better or for worse is inevitable. It is the
time between that change which interests me most.
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