Suburban Utopia, An Infertile Place (SU4IP)
Lyndon Watkinson
Lyndon Watkinson (1999) is an artist, designer, writer, and musician based in Sheffield, UK. Democratising art and art context through artworks, publications, graphic design, articles, and sound. Creative director and founder of the online arts organisation SU4IP. His work is characterised by a desire for precision, often depicting aesthetics that celebrate and criticise the absurdity of corporatized identity, calling into question the necessity of creating false exteriors when what is not seen is often just as important.
In late 2020, a blog post entitled Suburban Utopia, An Infertile Place formed part of the wider inquiry and development of his practice for his bachelor's degree in fine art. As his work matured, he applied this term as a formalisation of his creative endeavours, later abbreviating it to SU4IP, now used as a digital alias and publishing entity.
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Digital Collage/Spoken Word/Sound, 2022
It’s difficult to recognise when things aren’t as they should be. I'll do something incorrectly several times before realising there's a better way.
Road signs are designed to train us to expect the same thing over and over. This function serves a direct purpose: to make driving safe and intuitive.
But what if, just once, things were a little different? For a second, I thought this might be the case. Compliance is a recreation of this short-lived possibility, an attempt to immortalise these uncertain moments in life when things just don’t look right.
︎ Commanding road signs are a common sight,
as we strive
to make motor transportation easier.
Work is always being done.
No exceptions will suffice,
we must often
change direction
to get where we are going.
A view from a car window
driving along the motorway,
late in the evening.
The wrong car,
the wrong country,
the wrong road.
You should take an alternative route sometimes.
If things don’t look right, they probably aren’t.
I was wrong about how it appeared,
but I was right about it being in the wrong place.
I’ll never get bored of being in the wrong place.
I’m safe from affirmation
and comfort.
Everything is trying
and testing.
Forcing, adapting, repairing.
If things don’t look right, they probably aren’t.
Making things wrong can sometimes be the only way things will ever change.
Relish these reminders.
as we strive
to make motor transportation easier.
Work is always being done.
No exceptions will suffice,
we must often
change direction
to get where we are going.
A view from a car window
driving along the motorway,
late in the evening.
The wrong car,
the wrong country,
the wrong road.
You should take an alternative route sometimes.
If things don’t look right, they probably aren’t.
I was wrong about how it appeared,
but I was right about it being in the wrong place.
I’ll never get bored of being in the wrong place.
I’m safe from affirmation
and comfort.
Everything is trying
and testing.
Forcing, adapting, repairing.
If things don’t look right, they probably aren’t.
Making things wrong can sometimes be the only way things will ever change.
Relish these reminders.