Voyeurism
When you think of a voyeur, usually the definition entails ‘observing in order to obtain some sort of sexual gratification’. However, when I think of a voyeur, I think of every single person that I know and every single person that I don’t know, living their day to day lives.
Today, our society operates in the age of the voyeur. We are constantly being watched by our smart phones, smart TVs, cameras on the street, cameras at work, instagram ads, google (know your customer software) and whatever else you can think of that most of us are exposed to on a daily basis. The idea of supervision is usually introduced under the guise of ‘protection’ but we all know that the agenda of the state rarely benefits the people.
Movies like The Matrix, Hunger Games and books like 1984 were not supposed to be documentaries. It’s scary how close they have become though.
George Orwell’s book: 1984, inspired this Big Brother Is Watching You sketch. I see more and more the similarities of modern day society mimicking this fictional, classic, novel.
When a society is monitored by the eye in the sky and governed by armed militia on the ground, what space are we leaving for internal and external peace? Freedom doesn’t seem so free after all.
I used two pieces of paper to represent the idea that rarely, if ever, are the inhabitants of the planet being shown the full picture.
This is supposed to be a silhouette of a soldier.
I used a number 2 pencil to outline the silhouette, a blue Crayola colored pencil to color the outside and scissors to cut it out.
See how we aren’t getting the full picture?
We live in the shadow of the military.
Voyeurism: the art of observing to avoid participating.
Voyeurism: the manipulation of participants through observation.
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Pura Vida ✌️