"This latest collection of New Slumscapes is a continuation of a 20-year fascination of rendering the blight of third-world shantytowns. My focus is on the aesthetics of the slum dwellers' architectural design-by-necessity and the compositions of shacks on the landscape. Some of the slumscapes are derived entirely from my dystopic imagination. Others are compiled from photographic imagery recorded during my travels to India (and other developing countries) In most of the work, I juxtapose familiar icons of our privileged, over-indulgent and oblivious first-world with desperate, third-world squalor. In this way I can bring the degradation and seething humanity of much of the world right to the viewer's doorstep." - Jeff Gillette
