Artwork Description
"He's a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Doesn't have a point of view,
Knows not where he's going to,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?"
The lyrics of The Beatles's "Nowhere Man" left an immediate impression on us. We thought at first about folks we knew who seemed like they really were "in a nowhere land, making nowhere plans for nobody", often labelled by society as losers. But surely we all have felt lost before. And even though we are always aiming to get "somewhere" in our careers and in life, in the end, is that "somewhere" really that important and valuable? What do these trophies and achievements mean? I recalled that when an album sold a certain number of copies, the artist will be awarded a platinum or gold record to be hung on a wall. So for this work, we assembled all these possible "trophy vinyls" to form a canvas. A nowhere man goes round and round, from one vinyl to the next, from boy to man. But when his songs in life end, where will he be going to next? We hope this work reminds us that the treasures on earth will one day all be meaningless.