Bumpersticker
Matilda Moors & Hannah Stearn
20.09-07.10.14

http://www.matildamoors.com/
http://www.hannahstearn.com/

Z: What’s Bumper Sticker about?
X: Should I go first​?
Y: Umm, it’s about peoples drive to believe in something powering the world outside of themselves and then sticking it on the bumper of their car.
X: What? You mean like distilling an idea so that you can show it off?
Y: Yeah definitely…
X: Making work that is about something that is indescribable. Like power, structures or connections. Making work about something
huge, like ​​fractal formations embedded in everything from nature to the stock​ ​market, that also exist​ on hippy t-shirt​s.​
Y: Buying into these belief system is all about revealing something to the outside world, revealing a conspiracy or personal philosophy. When you wear your meditation pyramid everyone knows you’re involved.  You share those secrets with your pack and have a total sense of belonging.
X: And your bumper sticker is like the certificate of attendance.
Y: It's about w​hat happens when those things start to become ridiculous​.​
X: Yeah, the fact that you can get your spirituality speed shipped to you, or have your conspiracy theory digested into a cartoon. When ideals manifest themselves through humans they come out a bit absurd.
Y: Like spiritual bon bons
X: But people want to know that what is inside them is alright so they look for structures or patterns as a way of finding a mirror.
Y: And all of those different structures, conspiracies, philosophies and spiritual theories bleed into each other and become mush, but that mush is definitely intriguing.
X: Yeah, a​nd that’s what we should make the show about.