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“To God, history is… a landscape of events.” Embedded within a culture and era where images bombard and technology thrives, through shifting visual perception and increased distraction, there is a hierarchy of information—of words, logos and cultural symbols mediated by the physical and virtual spaces of screens, frames, and institutions. My work addresses the intersections and simultaneity of these post-modern spaces, the collisions of distant and disparate places and people. The increased mobility that technology offers creates the illusion that the world is becoming connected on more level terrain. But how does one reconcile Darfur to a 13-point font in the screen of a browser? In this increasingly ‘global’ economy and ‘inter-connected’ world, what is the role of the individual within society, the local within the global, the personal within the public? I am interested in the space between the categories of ‘nation’ and ‘class’ and ‘race’—how these identities are shaped together, and how they are being disrupted and dismembered with the advent of the internet and globalization. What is the response to the disjuncture between the absence/presence of history, of God, and of redemption within the human condition? |