This World Is Working Better For Me

With the rise of AI, we are questioning image provenance more than ever before. This World Is Working Better For Me is a mixed media series interrogating our collective journey to where we are now - a world of multiple and warped realities.

Stretching back into art history and the history of magic, Douglas meditates on the dance between photography, painting and symbolism, and the impact of these on advertising, cinema and popular culture.

Fascinated and frightened by popular culture’s influence on our experience of reality and today’s media landscape, Douglas touches upon a myriad of real life concerns including political polarisation and mounting tensions, environmentalism and conspiracies, and asks the ultimate question - what is real anymore?


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Ying Yang



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2017 — Frogtown, Los Angeles