progress

While I did this first part earlier last week, I did not post so I figured i would drop an update while I was on the computer.

There happens to be a recycling drop off point near to my apartment, and one of the bins is for electronics. Wishing for a little extra pizzaz to add to my final print, I went in to salvage some of the cooler-looking parts :P
Mid way through dismantling a broken monitor, the recycling company's truck pulled up... I was kinda worried I wasn't supposed to be there, as there is a giant sign that says, "THIS AREA IS UNDER VIDEO SURVEILLANCE" turns out he laughed and thought I was salvaging parts to build my own computer. He had no problem with me being there, and I went back to work.





After I got my images printed, I went pyro on the full picture, burning holes to make it appear as though the technology is burning through.





Some of the thought I have had while creating this idea:
-anything can be reproduced through technology
-computer took a scene with little to no technology and made it into bits of data/information
-even those who seek to remove themselves from technology are subject to becoming a part of it
-what happens to the world when technology takes over? Maybe we have so many movies and books about robots taking over is because there is some basis in truth o.O
-Though I can't recall the title I read a book in my childhood about the development of a virtual reality system that allowed the user to go/do whatever they wished without moving from the stasis pod their body rested in. The world eventually falls apart because all the people end up liking the pods better than real life. One boy is left alone on the planet as it collapses around him and the people in the pods start dying off because there is no one around to take care of them