C-Prints mounted on Plexiglas, 2004
Shell's series Cut and Pastes take appropriated imagery and text from the internet to explore the varied and suprising effects of new technologies on humanity and its subcultures. From left to right, top down:
The Crush/ The I love You Virus
-text from fetish groups: HIV "bug
chasers", barebackers, and bug
crushing fetish groups; and
computer virus sites
For Kudzu: White German Shepherds
Riding Harleys
-text and images from a personal blog
on Harleys and White German S
hepherds, and White German Shepherd
breed standards webpage
Anas, Mias, and The 1015 Super Onion
-text from pro-anorexia
and pro-bulimia sites, canabalistic poetry
group
chatrooms, and technology- enhanced vegetable sites
The Sims: An American Ideal (Build,
Buy, Live)
-text, images, and logos from advertisements
for the Sims- online
virtual reality game
The Thumb Gets its Due
-text and images from hitchiker sites,
the Japanese "Thumb Tribe" sites,
Darwin theory sites, and excerpts
fromTom Robbins "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"