Over this year, the computer and internet has played a critical role in my practice, research, and online communication with other classmates & leaders. Used for assignments, filing and storage of documentation and photographs, minor image editing (cropping, levels, layout), communication -including analysis with peers, online contextual research including other artists, poets, writers, philosophers, and theory linked to my central aims and objectives of a disconnection to nature. I am on the computer at least 3 times every day. However, as the year has progressed, and more time is spent trudging through a flat screen, reading, hunting, ordering, getting lost, finding, opening, closing, saving, filing, staring at a flat -senseless screen, the less I want to open the flat sideways lying, cursor blinking, plastic buttoned, overheating, texture-less, senseless 'book'.
I want reality. I want dry paper between my fingers, an isle of real books, I want a pencil and a rubber (eraser thank you very much;), a highlighter, a walk, the wind, the scents, the glare, objects and their potential for allegory.
My research into a disconnection with nature, has lead me from once being a regular Gen Y computer/internet user, into a
Computer crashed. How appropriate.
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