05 October 2010

Exiled to Cyberia

Back in 1995 Cyberia was London's first internet cafe....probably one of the first on the planet. My studio was on the same street, and one day I saw it was unusually crowded. They were holding a special introductory event about this new thing called "the internet". This businessman started chatting to me; he couldn't understand what the internet was for and yet he was terribly anxious about being left "out of the loop". He was so worried that he didn't notice or care that I was painting him.
Watercolour 14cm x 10cm. Click to enlarge.

2 comments:

problemchildbride said...

God, so much of human life is that. Great rendering of The Fear, Naddie,

Oscar Grillo said...

He never noticed. He was a geek.