Dom Sebastian’s work navigates the unstable terrain of categorisation, illusion, excess, and the queering of the everyday. Drawing from the detritus of capitalist culture : stock photography, synthetic flavouring, mass-produced objects, he retools consumer goods to expose the disappointing realities that shape them. This practice is driven by a charged tension between desire and revulsion - a transformative process in which ordinary objects are mutated in response to the way human longing is projected onto machines. The resulting works occupy a world that feels seductively artificial, one in which things only ever look their best when they’ve been engineered, exaggerated, or pushed beyond the real.
Dom Sebastian’s work navigates the unstable terrain of categorisation, illusion, excess, and the queering of the everyday. Drawing from the detritus of capitalist culture : stock photography, synthetic flavouring, mass-produced objects, he retools consumer goods to expose the disappointing realities that shape them. This practice is driven by a charged tension between desire and revulsion - a transformative process in which ordinary objects are mutated in response to the way human longing is projected onto machines. The resulting works occupy a world that feels seductively artificial, one in which things only ever look their best when they’ve been engineered, exaggerated, or pushed beyond the real.