Today Revisited
The advent of electronic
devices marked the most significant development of humanity in our modern era,
“smart” mobile devices being the most recently relevant. From anywhere mobile
service or wireless Internet extends, access to an infinitesimal amount of
information can be gained with the quaintest of thumb gestures. Smart phones
have thusly created a symbiotic link between the individual and daily virtual
information absorption. Perhaps the most astonishing trait of innovation is
society’s ability to adapt to its’ rapid growth and respond, physically and
mentally, to what innovation can offer. Device integrated lifestyles have
become commonplace and in this, have become a remarkable feat of social conditioning.
If this technological
revolution is currently underway, we won’t understand the effects of these
devices on the individual and society as a whole for another sixty years or so.
We are in the water, and it’s difficult to see the water when immersed. How has
our submersion into the screen, the illuminated digital screen, guided our
perception? When you look up from virtual reality, of which affords an ever-
increasing amount of our time, what is the world you see? Is our idea of
reality growing lucid in response to the information systems we use, or is it
the virtual that is becoming all encompassing? How we view images we are
confronted with will differ not long from now and because of this,
understanding our relationship to them in the current moment is necessarily
urgent. These allegorical photographs
I have presented offer a rendering of reality that scratches at the story of
perception. A drama of existence, whose plot unfolds around us everyday.