The idea of a global village personally hinges on the direct impacts of technology, resulting in more deeply intimate interactions, and at a larger scale than ever before—and only increasing in its pervasive attacks. This new world and culture requires us to match the levels of actualized involvement to the intellectual involvement; meeting this as individualistically as so much of the mass does leaves us unable to reach the totality of integration. Regardless of an individual’s adaptational capability, the harsh boundary of individual versus Other remains despite the exposure; the stories don’t impact us, and with so much capacity for achievement (benevolent or malevolent) partnered with newly-relevant globally-faced issues, we must learn to completely conceptualize the true reality we have created and reside in. We must learn to acknowledge our perspectives in relation to the wider world, allowing ourselves to be affected by and thus completely exist within the global village....
Moving from a photo investigation of my ideas to a printed book was an exciting follow up after a narrative emerged while organizing the initial album. Incorporating text in this step of project development offered so many different avenues of approaching the layout. Throughout the semester, I’ve realized I struggle with prompted projects, as I’ve always been pretty strictly process based. The challenge of responding to the prompt, while not creating something inauthentic to fit the boundaries or making something that feels more representational than an artistic response, was an engaging way to begin to explore new approaches to my creation process. I knew I wanted to use text to reinforce the narrative of the photos themselves, but didn’t necessarily want to present a fully explained project. With my focus on encouraging viewers to consider themselves and the world around them, I don’t want them to just read a message and move on to the next part of their day. Studies on viewers ...