Life-Support is a series of photo collage works that reference the themes of Lay’s recent sculptures. In this series photographs of computer parts, the optical drive and hard disk drive are counterpoised with photographs of the “heads” to illuminate the fusion of the human spirit and technology and our role as enhanced humans in the Post-Modern Era.

From Whitehot Magazine, November 2010, Kofi Forson Interviews Jill Conner on Core and Mantle Exhibition.

Forson: I find the most transcendental piece to be Pat Lay’s “Life Support.” (2008) It’s very much a visible thing, at once cinematic and yet evolving lyrically. What’s your impression of this particular piece?

Conner: I favored the placement of a machine part over that of a human portrait. Pat Lay pieces together our strong attachment to technology. Her work is also a critique of the computer fetish through its distortion of an individual’s identity, giving more prominence to the frame of a computer hard drive. Put simply, we are very close to living pure artificial lives.