"TOUCH GRASS" – Available On SuperRare
A cyborg woman with exposed robotic parts stands on a fire escape. Her stance carries attitude but also exhaustion. She knows the irony of those TOUCH GRASS billboards, leering like evangelical hookers promising salvation for three easy payments of your soul. She gets the joke - hell, she’s the punchline. Touch grass is the new absolution: pay for the app, subscribe to social media, redeem your soul in micro-transactions. Teal light against dull concrete traps the scene in cinematic weight, balancing beauty and confinement.
The slogan loops, relentless, hollowed out by repetition until it’s just noise. Machines pitch the idea of touching grass, but as indifferent as street cats showing attention only for food. Fake flowers glow like neon illusions, the only things pretending life still counts in a city that forgot what is real. Framed between billboards, she becomes both product and prisoner of her own image. Nature as DL, downloadable life, the only “organic” element commercialized and destined to fail when the servers go dark. She is the subscription-based afterlife, half-remembered humanity, half-optimized corpse, posed on a balcony that sells the promise of earth while standing in front of the concrete that buried it.
No one looks up from their phone anymore. We live inside our screens until something finally snaps us out of them. In the artwork, that “something” is a surreal woman dropping small glowing orbs from the sky, giving a gentle cosmic shove that forces a couple to glance up at the same moment and actually see each other. It’s a love letter and a warning wrapped into one.