Lullabye (Nuclear Samurai)
Video, 2023
About the artwork
Lullaby imagines a devoted fathers love for his daughter manifesting in him buying an ever increasing amount of guns and weapons for her. This absurd little journey explores an archetype of the patriotic and gun loving American. An ever escalating arms race against the world around them, leading to a catastrophic result.
AI Generated music by Nuclear Samurai
Audio explanation
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Nuclear Samurai is an artist with a background in commercial photography, and fine art photography.
He has worked for years as a studio photographer and studied a fine art degree majoring in photography. His work often considers topics such as truth in images, identity and persona in the digital era, and musings on absurdities in the way society is structured.
His visual style is often inspired by a photographic, subtle surrealism, that leans heavily on the cinematic language of film to convey narratives and emotions.