Teal Griffin and Charlie Harrison at Chemist Gallery
Our perceptions of reality are no longer aspirational. That is not in a "fake news" or conspiratorial sense, but the reality that belonged to older generations is no longer feasible for most younger generations. All this being said, there is something bizarrely appealing about the hyper-mundane. Young people are indulging less in hedonistic pursuits, nightclubs are closing down, and conversely, the popularity of sedating activities like ambient YouTube videos (this ' book nook ambience ' is my personal favourite; even the video description opens with: 'You're safe now'). The romanticised mundane has seemingly usurped the fantastical escapism of the recent past. My washing machine stopped working recently, and I went to the local launderette to scope out the scene there, if you will. In my head, I had worked up an incredibly mundane, but secretly satisfying, fantasy of dropping my laundry into a machine, inserting an amorphous token, and sitting and readin
