Boiled crab. Pay-by-hour hotels. Vintage film clubs. Painkillers and psychedelics. Happy hour cocktails. Virtual matinées. Fried cod. White Rabbit. Pani puri. Bubble tea. Cheap ramen. Love.
Mimicking the aesthetic appeal of modern marketing and perfect product placement captured by Sayaka Murata's novel Convenience Store Woman, the drawings reflect on a universal comfort derived from positive advertising and consumer goods, the loudness and pervasiveness of product marketing; those that are carefully curated by capitalistic mechanisms that work to achieve brand loyalty and buy-to-feel-good spending.
