Great news–I’ll have a few pieces in a gallery in April! In the mean time, I need your input to decide on my subject:
The theme: Here and Now. What’s affecting our generation? What do you think about, worry about, love/hate about our time?
Here are some of the most powerful answers I’ve received so far:
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I’m worried about our addiction the media and it’s effect on education. Instead of opening a book, a teenager goes on Chelsea Lately’s Twitter or watches the Kardashians.
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What’s affecting our generation–starting to deal with adult hood
what I think about is work, people, music
what I worry about is love
what I love about our time is the sounds
what I hate about our time is the lack of support for education and educators in the world -
I hate totalitarianism. Especially the celestial kind in the form of religion. I hope people can let go of age-old myths and rely on reason, debate, and common ground to form the moral basis for how to treat one another” –anonymous
The photo above is part of a recent study of walls: the baby boomer generation put up walls to safeguard a happy, healthy, wholesome image. My generation, the children of the baby boomers, have our own version of walls. We still have them, but we like to think we don’t or if we do that we’re quite open-minded, carefree people. What I’m learning however is that our technological generation uses a wall of another kind. Our walls are ones that we create where we can control how we’re seen in a different way. An example: our social media profiles, they foster communication, absolutely, but we also hide behind them. My recent study, therefore, was in discovering and exploring different sorts of walls.