Cheryl Eggleston Art
Paintpot Studio
It's All About Numbers
Ten paintings are a light commentary on society's dependence with numbers and counting. Our modern civilization is bound up by numbers and we don’t even give it a thought. We count minutes, hours and days, weeks, months and years. We guard our Social Security number, credit card numbers, credit scores, and we listen as the daily news keeps a close watch on the Dow Jones. Telephone numbers link us to our work, friends and family. Our house has a number so GPS can find us. We measure things, size/dimensions in numbers. We count our money and our possessions. We count calories and worry about the number on the scale. This goes for our cholesterol and blood pressure numbers as well. We find our favorite television and radio station by tuning to a numbered frequency. From the need for critical accuracy, where mathematical calculations take us into space; to the frivolity of social media, where we count our Facebook friends, 'likes' and 'followers' too, it’s all about the numbers. In each painting, there is an abstract number (0-9 of the Arabic number system) and also some reference to jail like bars, as we can’t escape the number system.
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