“At the end of the 1960s the West Coast Light and Space artist Laddie John Dill began producing electric light works out of custom-made, blown-glass tubes in a lush palette of jewel-bright colors… Some are made of many short pieces, some of longer parts and fewer colors.
They glow beautifully like strings of illuminated glass beads. Mr. Dill called these works “Light Sentences,” likening the segments of color to words grouped in phrases and sentences. This suggests that light itself could be a transcendental language. But the effect of these works in concert is less verbal and more like trippy visual chamber music.”
New York Times, Ken Johnson.
His work looks like a landscape in non-place. They are futuristic landscapes. This artwork, in particular, refers through the title Nineteen Eighty-Four, written by George Orwell, between 1947 and 1948. The novel popularized the concepts of the omnipresent and watchful Big Brother, of the notorious Room 101, of the ubiquitous police of Thought and of the Newspeak, adaptation of the English language in which the lexicon is reduced and transformed for repressive purposes, based on the principle that what is not part of the language, can not be thought.
Many analysts detect parallels between today's society and the world of “1984”, suggesting that we are beginning to live in what has become known as Orwellian society, a society where information is manipulated and mass surveillance and political and social repression are practiced.
