The Art of P. Seth Thompson-This Message Has No Content

In the Beginning, it is Always Dark, 2014
Archival pigment print mounted to Dibond
30 x 60 in.
Edition of 5
Signed by artist on label, verso

I've Got One That Can See, 2013
Archival pigment print mounted to Dibond
20 x 20 in.
Edition of 5
Signed by the artist on label, verso

Time Coincidence Module, 2014
Archival pigment print mounted to Dibond
60 x 40 in.
Edition of 5
Signed by the artist on label, verso

Yesterday's Impossibilities Become a Part of Everyday Life, 2014
Archival pigment print mounted to Dibond
40 x 60 in.
Edition of 5
Signed by the artist on label, verso

The Self-Made Man (Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent as Superman), 2013
Archival pigment print mounted to Dibond
40 x 40 in.
Edition of 5
Signed by the artist on label, verso

This is the 80s! Nobody Likes Reality Anymore!, 2014
Two archival pigment prints mounted to Dibond
40 x 20 in. (each 20 x 20 in.)
Edition of 5
Signed by the artist on label, verso

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After receiving an email dated “12/31/1969” that simply read “This Message Has No Content,” I became increasing intrigued with the contemporary concept of both time and reality. Continuing in my practice of carefully mining philosophical theory, 80’s cult film and science fiction, the recent compositions offer new investigations on the extent to which we can separate and define reality.

Building upon the paradox of fiction, and referencing the films The Neverending Story, Spacecamp, Splash, Superman, and Psycho, I explore how the moving image in particular has constructed, altered, and informed my own personal reality.