Hole-Punched Worker
Mimicking the menial tasks of office work, “Hole-Punched Worker” was conceptualized as having a working methodology that reflects the repetitive and tedious nature of daily office life - from the tasks, to the documents, to the work days themselves. This large-scale collage is comprised of thousands of hole-punched office documents, all rearranged to duplicate a stock image of a disengaged “office worker.” The resulting monochromatic portrait depicts a distorted figure slumped over his laptop, rendered anonymous by a veiled network of paper discs. Here the worker is not an identifiable individual but merely a cog within the machine, identified only by the work he performs. In a further mirroring of corporate ethos, the punched holes allude to the common expression, “punching the clock,” where one must leave emotion and self at the door, as these spaces of production require only your timeliness and presence.
Mimicking the menial tasks of office work, “Hole-Punched Worker” was conceptualized as having a working methodology that reflects the repetitive and tedious nature of daily office life - from the tasks, to the documents, to the work days themselves. This large-scale collage is comprised of thousands of hole-punched office documents, all rearranged to duplicate a stock image of a disengaged “office worker.” The resulting monochromatic portrait depicts a distorted figure slumped over his laptop, rendered anonymous by a veiled network of paper discs. Here the worker is not an identifiable individual but merely a cog within the machine, identified only by the work he performs. In a further mirroring of corporate ethos, the punched holes allude to the common expression, “punching the clock,” where one must leave emotion and self at the door, as these spaces of production require only your timeliness and presence.
Mimicking the menial tasks of office work, “Hole-Punched Worker” was conceptualized as having a working methodology that reflects the repetitive and tedious nature of daily office life - from the tasks, to the documents, to the work days themselves. This large-scale collage is comprised of thousands of hole-punched office documents, all rearranged to duplicate a stock image of a disengaged “office worker.” The resulting monochromatic portrait depicts a distorted figure slumped over his laptop, rendered anonymous by a veiled network of paper discs. Here the worker is not an identifiable individual but merely a cog within the machine, identified only by the work he performs. In a further mirroring of corporate ethos, the punched holes allude to the common expression, “punching the clock,” where one must leave emotion and self at the door, as these spaces of production require only your timeliness and presence.
