Plasticine, Video Globe, Plug timer
Dimensions Variable

The sculpture ‘Can’t get you out of my head’ consists of a plasticine Buddha icon with its head replaced by a rotating LED video globe. The Buddha uses the format of the yellow ‘fat Buddha’ the origin of which is disputed. As opposed to the traditional thin Buddha found in temples in the east, it is thought that the ‘fat Buddha’ came about when Buddhism arrived in China, circa 100AD, nobles, whose physical image would not have been thin or athletic, would have funded its dissemination. Another theory is the icon emerged when Buddhism arrived in Europe and its representation would have been influenced by Greek and Persian art. Also a reference to Nam June Paik’s ‘TV-Buddha’ (1974), this Buddha reaches enlightenment through an endless stream of corporate logos, cartoons catchphrases and vacuous imagery spinning through its head.