ABOUT THIS PROJECT
The consumer society runs on a constant urge for more — possession, comfort, novelty, paralysis. Products age quickly, trends evaporate, technology accelerates beyond human capacity. Enough is never enough.
Bodies react: burst veins, trembling hands, overstimulated eyes. Advertising constructs the architecture of empty desire. Identity is linked to brand; self-image to ownership. Social media amplify the spectacle: doomscrolling through the shop windows of other people's success. The gaze is hyper-alert, the hand tingling, reaching for what's missing — test patterns, grinding teeth, virtual satisfaction. Fluff.
Financial pressure disguises itself as abundance of poor quality. Credit replaces security; status replaces stability. The economy leans on promises of future ownership; eyes carry the strain of permanent scrolling. Bloodshot.
Ecological consequences are visible: waste, deforestation, poisoned oceans. Products are designed to die, only to be reborn as the next purchase. Tanks, drones — war. Airplanes, dropshipping — the traces of greed. Psychokillers: boredom, anxiety, alienation.
The consumptor nervosus emerges — overstimulated, restless, trapped in endless stimulation. Excess becomes overload; the senses lose distinction. Cultural uniformity completes the circle. Main Street = Big Name Street: the same brands, the same tastes, the same images — individuality dissolves into pattern. We are stickmen, moving through standardized algorithms: copies without origin.
The consumer society is addicted to itself. It feeds on attention, body, and mind. The consumptor nervosus is its engine — constantly craving, endlessly chasing its own timeline.
consumptor nervosus manifests as a PFP collection — deliberately positioned within the logic of the crypto and NFT market. A series of 10,000 items, low-priced, not designed to sell out but to confront. The project plays with the same mechanisms it critiques: scarcity, hype, accumulation. The goal is not ownership, but awareness.
We consume ourselves.