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Hyper-Altruism 1-7, Digital Collage (2022, Procreate, Picsart, Personal Photography)
These digital collages reflect on the influence the internet and social media have had on my perceptions of myself and the world around me.
So much effort is put into promoting self-love, positive ideologies, and mental well-being on the internet, but it does not seem to translate into the temporal realm. The neon infographics polluting platforms like instagram and facebook severely misrepresent the reality of health, healing, and community.
When we portray mental unwellness as something romantic, trendy, or cute; are we sending the right message?
Can a political statement really be considered a core part of your identity?
Is the saturation of information enlightening and helpful or over-stimulating and inflaming?
It is important to strike up conversations about how these internet tools are being used in society. There are aspects of our humanity far too complex and profound to synthesize into an Instagram post.
Look less at your phone and look more at the people around you-
What notifications are they sending you?
We love it when the dopamine hits from a momentary internet thrill- but we are robbing ourselves of the opportunity to enjoy so many more lovely, yummy chemicals and sensations when we love and support one another IRL. Face to face. Eyeball to eyeball. Hand to hand. Maybe even hugging. (With the phones locked in a safe in the bunker in the basement.)
In the words of Kierkegaard, “to be human, is not a fact, but a task.”
The most altruistic thing one can do is be human with another human.
Lest the Age of Information dissolve us all into e n t r o p y.
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Hodgepodgery of a Y2k Survivor (Picsart, Procreate)
COLLAGE /kəˈlɑːʒ/ (noun)
1 a. a work of art that is made by attaching pieces of different materials to a flat surface.
b. the art or method of making collages
2. a collection of different things.
Born in '94, it goes with out saying-my generation has witnessed some of the most rapid growth in information humanity has ever seen. While our ancestors theorized, debated, and created the structure of rational though that is called Science, their children have an implicit understanding of these things. We are the the kids who experienced first hand the practical application of our elders' theories and concepts.
Lab rats of the information age turned Cyber Punk-we pilot the info-scape. What was imagined in Tron and Blade Runner is our lived reality.
It is the work of my generation to collage the pragmatic aspects of our digitized, info-overwhelmed, hyperreal age so as not to be lost to the heat of entropy and narcissistic delusion.
These collages are the discharge of an overstimulated y2k survivor. The process of collage helps me understand more thoroughly how I feel about a cloud of data I have processed in writing, video editing or internet surfing. It's a place for me to put everything in once place so I can see how it all looks together.
I find these chaotic collages representative of how myself and my generation consume and share information-I ask questions like; How is the way we consume information (vs seek knowledge) effecting the evolution of the human mind?
Much research shows the human brain can NOT multitask, even if it thinks it can-perhaps that is true for the minds existing prior to the 1990s, but who is to say the mind cannot evolve to do so?
How do we steer all these separate bubbles of thought and concept into a singular, cohesive, science of humanity?