January 10, 2016

We misinterpret the camera's ability to isolate and suspend time.

The image is not real, it is an imitation of a fragmented moment that has passed.  It is only a piece of a bigger picture.

But because we want to believe an image has magical powers, and we desperately want that image I  now hold in my hand to be a past memory brought to future time it must then represents a truth, a person or an object as they were, a thing as it was but no longer.

We want to find continuity in our lives and the substitute to living fully in each moment is to live through moments captured by a mechanical device that has no other power than to freeze fragments of our sight as if this constitutes a real entity.

But it isn't time itself that has been captured, the image created is in time and ages just like we do. It is propaganda, looking at life disappearing can bring anxiety, we need to be sedated by distractions that keep us from inevitable truths.

A photograph is a means to abate time's awful march toward death.  As time passes by, we need a means to draw comparisons with times illusions.

We need to be able to compare the present with the past to give credibility to the life we are living.  Memory is itself a trap of the minds need to feel time passing.  We are now in a stage of obsession with time through image creation.

The present only exists through comparison.  A linear time line that we hold onto in sinking water.  Time eventually catches up with us and our ending begins to be seen. How do I want to be remembered becomes the mantra of more images being taken to fill your life with artifacts of your aging.

Images are made to consume without ever having to worry about running out.

This instills in us an obsessive behavior to create a separate reality for ourselves. If we take pictures of our lives then we will become immortal.  We will live in a past, created for no other reason then to live beyond our individual timeline which is unknown and is fear based.

The future is not known but the past can be represented through snap shots that will outlast our mortality.

In a real sense we are trying to be gods with supernatural photographic powers.

I annihilate the very purpose of living in the present.  I disrupt the unity of my life with nature.  I create a third reality that is false and extraordinarily disruptive to living a good life and that oppressive reality is consumerism through entertainment.