"I made this painting back in 2020 with the aim of illustrating a phenomenon called semantic satiation which describes how a word loses its meaning through incessant repetition. At the time I was struggling with depression and OCD and a lot of my daily life revolved around constantly checking that things were okay and real. Needless to say, perhaps, I had a very strenuous relation to my own perception of reality and I found how I felt strangely resonated in the digital world of games that aimed to simulate reality. how a game gives you the illusion of a rendered reality that literally can break down by a mere glitch which often has the aesthetic notion of endless repetition. In preparation for Hawxs.EXE I made a digital composition in which I gave myself the task of repeating the same type of bird in as many different twisted and glitchy ways as I could imagine. As a result, some of the birds are stretched, some are transparent, some have changed colors and some have even been reduced to Ascii code. I wanted to create the feeling of meaninglessness that is born when something is repeated enough times."

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Vincent Langaard