ADAM DIX (BRITISH b.1967), 'The Messenger (prt2)', 2013, fluorescent pigment, silkscreen, oil and ink on canvas. (45 x 45cm). NOTES: Adam Dix’s paintings explore associations between communication technology and our desire to communicate. His exploration into Society’s response and subsequent personification of these devices of modern communication describe how we relate to and comprehend technology on a humanistic level, whilst referring to other constructed ‘belief systems’ that foster a similar dual sense of connectivity and community. Dix’s palette of muted colours, hazy imagery and subject anchor the work in a time of historical optimism. Referring to the imagined futures of our predecessors his deployment of colour links the subject of contemporary technology to its 1950's origins. This has led to the production of work that invite the viewer to engage in a secular celebration. A festival of communication, presided over by a Shamanic custodian that acts as a conduit between audience and transmission device. Where the phone mast and satellite dish take on the character of ‘Totem’ and the audience depicted represent a circulation of connectivity. PROVENANCE: Gifted by the artist to ESOP.