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 mobile 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 every day.