ON PETER HALLEY

Peter Halley's work shows a post industrial future which is a highly abstracted kind of social space.I feel it shows his fear of progressing into the fast paced world of technology that lies ahead of him with his use of simulated materials and hyperreal spaces which seem to function mechanically. He states, " Yet behind the mask of humanism there exists not the truths of materialism but the nightmare scenarios of logic and determinism. There emerges a crystalline world responsive only to numerical imperative, formal manipulation, and financial control." It makes me think of our high tech electronics in which we depend on for relaxation or entertainment are not really there to uplift our spirits and for relaxing but they are there to hold us down . I myself get distracted by these objects everyday for fun and easy availability of supplying what I want when I want. I think Peter Halley is foreseeing a decay in our society rather than a progression. Ive noticed that his newer pieces reflect what seem to be technological prisons.