Unplug The Signal

While once engaged by the television set and other forms of the mass media, Roeland Fischer began to notice that the reality that he was being sold was not his own. In a society saturated with meaningless advertising art with no substance Roeland became inspired to create works that would both inspire individual thought and awaken ones social conscious. According to Roeland, "It's time people quit living a life of constant entertainment and start engaging in critical thought while questioning the barrage of commercial images and propaganda that they are faced with each day." "It's difficult to make it in the art world when you are an independent artist competing against those that have assistance creating their work or even have factory lines that produce their original works of art for them. Most well known artists become known because they have money backing them or they are part of the machine, which has created the corporatization of art. Sorry but that's not me, I'd rather speak out about something I believe in and struggle, then be silent and get paid. At the end of the day I would rather have a disappointment while following my own vision than a success while conforming to the corporate art world. Too many artists are slaves of the corporate world. I want to be an artist that represents truth and creates paintings that represent the concerns of today. I want my artwork to be viewed as a weapon in the infowar as we fight our way into peoples' consciousness through the arts. "