Although Carruthers’s drawings are technically static, the effect of looking at them is immersive, disorienting, and dynamic. Carruthers makes us dizzy on purpose, intentionally creating a physical experience of vertigo for the viewer. Because the drawings literally fill up the room, and because each little frame has such potent narrative impact, we have to navigate them, as in a video game, charting our own path through the imagery. Unlike a video game, however, which usually follows a linear narrative, this experience is open-ended. No two people will make the same set of connections or link the images into the same story.

Carruthers’s artwork is satisfying as pure entertainment and as social commentary, documenting the oppression, violence, despair, humiliation, and humour of our world in a recognizable way. The installation is also a physical experience, more interactive than most artworks, despite the fact that there are no moving parts. Conceptually, Carruthers’s mesh of potent, activated nodes is a model of the human brain itself.

Terrific site!
- M.Jean 3-02-2010 10:07 pm

Refreshing to see a website that's all black and white.
- L.M. 3-02-2010 10:59 pm

YAY, I love this work.
I like the "enough already!" back links.
- joseter (guest) 3-06-2010 3:06 pm