June 2004
Paul Harper
Another Day Full of Dread
Another Day Full of Dread is part of an ongoing series of text-based works that can potentially exist in a number of different forms but which ideally should be visible outside of a traditional gallery environment. The piece bears a strong formal resemblance to the language of advertising yet disrupts our expectations of adverts and the ways in which we are encouraged to read them as positive statements. Siting the work within a magazine that carries advertising seems an ideal way of accentuating the contrasts and ambiguities that exist between the real adverts and the work, hopefully opening up questions surrounding the many thousands of images and messages that we are forced to consume unconsciously every day.
