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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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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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PTS.ズーム,

Digital Collage, 2021

PTS.ズーム began as a study of the Zoom software layout. Fascinated by the grid, I thought it served as a notable example of its integration into everyday life.

This artwork establishes the ‘package and send’ structure of online learning. This is a sometimes-impenetrable feat for those who have difficulty using computers, or are handicapped by technological requirements.


︎    This artwork was inspired by the layout of my Zoom meetings, a representation of both technological progress and hindrance. The layout is directly inspired by the Zoom app interface, including the exact colours.

Overlaying the image is an invoice sticker, added in reference to the made-to-order nature of online curriculum. The upside-down ’42’ is also derived from the same image as the invoice labels, drawn in haste.

The use of Japanese was done to illustrate the difficulty many people faced shifting away from physical mediums towards digital ones. By using a foreign language to illustrate the communication tool within the software, I tried to capture the foreign feeling of using computers for those who are not substantially familiar with them.

PTS.ズーム serves as a visual representation of a more global but also deeply personal and emotional response to enforced online learning due to global socio-economic factors.