Jef Lacson attempts to overcome the psychic wounds created by growing up in the technologically advanced yet spiritually sterile conditions of the late 20th Century in his collages, digital assemblages and 3-D constructions by synthesizing images and objects selected for their hybrid forms. These forms are then mutated and remixed into “super hybrid” constructions. The focus of his work revolves around the central themes of evolutionary change and spiritual understanding. His aim is to draw a connection between environmental changes and the technology transforming how we live with the spiritual forces animating the natural world. The visual microcosms he invents merge traditional spiritual forms with emerging pop culture icons, to release the mythological potential inherent in these cultural icons. The central themes explored in his work are the fundamental conflicts that exist between science and religion, the force and motion of machinery, the nature of change and the search for a definition of man and his status in the universe.
