This image represents lost opportunities in childhood. Technology, mass media and consumerism have transformed our world into a two-dimensional experience where electronic connetions are made to passive viewers and purchase power is sold as the elixer of life. Opportunties to physically interact with the environment have become accidental and limited, and are framed by fear of the unknown and unexperienced.
So, join my remixed image, turn off the electronics and leave the mall behind. Go outside and see what mother nature has to share. Find a worm, follow an ant, collect leaves, stomp in mud puddles, and come to know yourself by the nature-based experiences that shape you.
Source: Dwell Magazine, [Small Paul Advertisement], July 2008.
Kerri Schmidt
