start postcards As already previously presented ordinary amateur photos as portable electronic images on gaudy blue desktop screens satisfying an ongoing human need to present a recognizable world filled with a sentimental valued personal significance; in much the same way Dutch artists from centuries past painted so called ordinary ‘low life’ domestic scenes that proved popular to an ever widening audience. Everyday life is ubiquitously duplicated in equivalent fashion in the twenty-first century on computer screens from laptops to smart televisions to smartphones of which the latter are evermore in the possession of an ever accelerating large percentage of the global population; even becoming an essential survival tool to refugees. Extraordinary, unique events are also eternally replayed on websites and television sets that can lead to greater public access to knowledge and information (so as to provide added depth to social history) but also to greater propaganda; paradoxically the overplaying of raw human events may also lead to an emptying of human meaning and even to a numbing process of dehumanization that can only reinforce an inward insular indifference to human suffering rather than to embracing an inclusive outward sense of universal humanity that can lead to compassion.
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HIDDEN. Rookwood Cemetery. 2015. rtf.