"Wallpaper uses imagery from a product design/lifestyle magazine in a video which breaks a cyclical process of consumption into component parts. Seeing, wanting, getting, using, and discarding. In this case, the pages are taken and then the chewed/consumed result is used to fill an empty corner, eventually creating a new structure."
Wallpaper (2012)
Other works by James Oram
James Oram
Feeling the Burn (2006)
A work of endurance that draws the spectator into the artist's cycles of action and breath.
James Oram
We found love (2012)
We Found Love records several layers of social and technological interaction at one remove from the present.
James Oram
Breath in a Bag (2011)
A plastic bag expands and contracts, moving as if it has a life of its own.
James Oram
Self Generating (2006)
The artist pedals an exercycle to power their ego, or sense of self.
Related essay
A Potentially Eternal Cycle: James Oram's Wallpaper
A Potentially Eternal Cycle: James Oram's Wallpaper
Essay
From the 2017/2018 Summer Reading Series, James Hope writes on the work of James Oram.