The prevalance of deceit is present in the pursuit of desire?

(John Donne, Luminarium editions 1653)

With my work I investigate the relation between commercial stereotypes and human desires. My main interest here lies in the overblown aspects of this relationship: the megastatussymbols,the super rich & famous etc.

Within this context I am inspired by the biological priciple of mimicry: the imitation of one species (or group of species) by another. The most common form is Batesian mimicry in which for instance a harmless hoverfly is coloured like an unpleasant wasp in order to confuse a predator.

As the hoverfly imitates the wasp, I am trying to imitate commercial stereotypes: I am not trying to make a perfect imitation of the original, but imitating the original as effective as I can.