Don’t Be Late for Dinner
Video, 2023
About the artwork
Don't Be Late for Dinner creates an absurd and surreal universe pieced together from fragments of life experiences. It depicts the aimless drift of teenage life, marked by a compulsion to return home and get ready for dinner. Recurring elements such as the oversized mascot costumes that appear throughout my work express the social awkwardness I experience. These costumes are visual symbols of social anxiety in my videos, embodying the absurd feeling of being constantly judged and perceived as silly. Washing machines, another motif in my videos, symbolize the longing for purity. Scenes of the house leaking water is a metaphor for the underlying, unspoken familial issues that are felt but often ignored.
AI generated music & sfx by Alice Gordon
Alice Lane Gordon has been long engaged in the meditative practice of sketching and doodling. While these have been constants in her life, artificial intelligence has recently become the catalyst for professional practice to emerge.
Identifying as a raw AI maximalist, she shuns post-editing processes, and her artistic journey is marked by extensive exploration and experimentation with AI text-to-image and text-to-video tools. Alice draws inspiration from the surrealist movement, infusing her work with a passion that manifests in a distinctive style she terms "absurdist surreal lonerism." This approach reflects her philosophy, capturing the essence of solitude and the absurd in a visually compelling manner.