Design

Neon Lies is a series of designs that explores how I’m just like really into the idea of neon signs right now, but feel inauthentic about it because I’m not actually making real signs. I have always had a stubborn adhesion to doing things the way I feel is most authentic and traditional, probably out of the desire to keep the feeling of gimmick or trickery far away from whatever I was making. I feel less guilt about not appeasing the purist inside of me now that I feel like the argument that a work is worth less consideration if it’s not done a proper way is usually made from a place of needlessly finding a way to devalue others’ efforts. Moreover, it should be the artist’s intention that informs the media. I’m not trying to prove the timelessness of the relatively old innovation of excited gases making brilliant light, I just think they look neat.