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In this new body of work Eagle explores the ennui at the heart of society. Grappling with notions of boredom and the unrealized desire to escape from monotony, Eagle explores self-inflicted neurosis and the self-help guides that offer futile redemption.

Consisting of a series of rendered images created from a 3 dimensional computer modelling programme, the digital prints feature objects that have been altered to enable them to contain other practical items. In one image, a dog’s spine becomes a vessel for a CD rack, in another a penny-farthing is reimagined as a plant-pot holder.The images are approximately 5 feet wide by 6 feet high printed onto blue backed paper, a material used commonly in commercial printing and billboard artwork.

These images are suspended from the ceiling creating what Eagle terms “an interruption to the gallery’s architecture”. The mechanics of the exhibition shift the way in which the viewer moves around the space and offers a dual aspect: confronting them with the large images as they enter the gallery and the flat visual plane of the reverse of the paper as they leave.

Eagle’s interest in advancement is manifested in the use of software programmes that change not just the way we produce images and objects, but also the way in which we consume and perceive imagery. As Colin Perry writes “Eagle produces images that mix desire and danger. His works call up a host of questions about the process of reproduction and distribution of popular images…His works look precision-engineered, are cool and quick to the pulse of this post-Fordist world.”There is an absurdity to Eagle’s digital prints, a romantic oddness and whimsical quality, yet each has the potential to be realized sculpturally – a 3 dimensional CD rack dog produced on an automated wire bending machine will accompany the show – and each demonstrates what American anthropologist Lewis H. Morgan describes as mankind’s development “through the slow accumulations of experimental knowledge”.