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Prelude

By Joe Duffy 2008

Joe Duffy

Prelude, depicts the banal functioning of a car wash machine from the point of view of a passenger, an experience that relates the teleogical aspect of society with the mimetic harnessing of nature in an act of simulation, the car wash as metaphorical journey through hyperreality. Using the title of 'Prelude,' the reference to Wordsworth's poetry and associative links to romanticism and the Sublime are evident.
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