The Fix (2016)

I am inspired by the human condition – the diversity and similarities between us. The way we make a living, the expectations on us, our contest for identity and global vision, from all angles. Within this work I wish to create some kind of evaluation, as to how our culture constructs the lives of our youth.

Particularly, I want to raise awareness to the loss of connectedness in our modern day culture, through material objects, screens, and virtual realities. The lack of attention to emotional intelligence, to assess these objects for what I think they really are – a substitute for human contact. 

We use beauty products to look desirable, we search through social media to keep up to date with whats in and whose doing what, we drink alcohol to have confidence, to make friends and find intimacy. The intimacy and emotional openness we had as children, i believe, is gradually repressed and limited as we grow up to understand, and try to fit in to our western ways. I think there is sadness here, and a tremendous loss for our society.

I see our world as a place exploited with consumer products, a culture that is constantly vying to over take each other, with little regard for self nurture. We wear masks and play roles, that in our hearts we don’t support, in order to fit in. It is this self reflection that I want to create conversation about – how the pressures of our culture influence you. 

The camera is an appropriate tool for this subject, as I am able to physically capture the surface of an event, or the identity of a person. Like a film still, the image captures only the surface, leaving the behind scenes, to the viewer. This is similar to the human subject, and our ability to separate our external selves from our internal selves.