"Think Different"

The "Think Different" series exposes the "new economy", real or virtual, with its increasing impact not only on our everyday life but also on our collective consciousness. Virtual spaces have created a language of their own, reflecting a frantic globalization of all things American and specific codes generated by the new markets.

The face of our urban landscape is constantly changing, pock-marked by a blight of billboards and ads glorifying the new era. The vitual world is invading our lives with incredible speed and bogus realism, generating a new myth of Aldous Huxley's "brave new world".

In this series, for which all the photographs were taken in 2000 in New York City's borough of Manhattan, I want to showcase the blatant manifestations of the new economy and its impact on society. Featuring plants photographed in hothouses and public municipal gardens, the collages send a mixed message: on the one hand, the mirage of a new organic and peaceful era, and on the other hand, a warning of the evil that will befall us if we allow ourselves to be lured by the message's siren song and start beliving the shiny promises of a new Eden, connected by ultra-fast worldwide communication. Beware the prickly cactus of their transliteration of unquenched thirst for love in our human relations.