Made off-the-cuff in the midst of Covid lockdown by naturally humorous actor Chris O’Bray, the apathy, clunkiness, and deadpan delivery, coupled with enervation both from months of lockdown and the undiminished zeitgeist of late Capitalism, lends this half-intentionally comic video review of Jolly Rancher cereal a metaphoric resonance that transcends its 80s connotations. It seems to eloquently capture what Thoreau called “the quiet desperation” of the modern individual in the age of materialism. Should it be in an art museum? A museum of historic preservation?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

— About the artist, Chris O’Bray

 

 

 

 

 

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