Childrens of the Dump Are people just not aware of REALITY!
Children are suffering and living under the most primitive of circumstances, thousands starving and dying of diseases that hold the simplest and most basic of cures. How do we begin to nourish the young and thirsty minds of the many afflicted children plagued by such circumstances. Do we dare to bring false hope to them and their families? Do we dare them to dream of a future and a proper education in the dump that they are condemned to call home?
A problem in need of a solution!
Society has long feared the differences and the confrontation that real life problems pose. On one hand we discover the need for evolution and the creation of new technologies and products of all kinds. On the other hand we experience the rapid downfall and decline of mother earth struggling to dispose of our waste; watching as we create a greater need for more and more space for the storage of our garbage. We are living in a media focused world driven by the obsessive focus of entertainment industries; aggressive sporting events, multimedia adverts, new gadgets to increase high performance and durability or should we say the maximum power to influence the mass. Is this newsworthy information?How do we begin to change this urban, suburban terrain; to move children and families away from these dumps we need to better understand and respect our living space. We need to open up ourselves and give the possibility of life to all people.
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What you feel about their situation? And what you want to do to help?
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Body Surfing By Benjamin Dunstan The project Body Surfing uses radiology, cat-scans, MRI, ultrasound and other bio-feedback images from the human body as the roots for the medium. One member is able to change the figure in an abstract, free and experimental form while the other member can change this new figure without diminishing the essence of the previous data image manipulation. The source of the data is found through the internet, compiled from industrial equipment. This data is then obscured and relayed in collaboration between members. The work's formal qualities are specifically informational and lack material, but the expressionistic vision is enforced because of its form and content reinforce each other so well. This vision or new reality shows the importance of perspective and the literal feelings of an individual. As the original data represents the state of one's body in this perspective or another, the machines and instruments set up to teach us about ourselves produce the mediums in which we can impose our impressions. People who seek treatment for aches and pains often have images taken of their bodies, doctors see this pain in them and in turn the patient gets an understanding from them. The Body Surfing project takes another first look and in these embelishments there is a kind of symbiotic relationship between the artists’ project and the images produced solely for patients. Some of the over painted renderings increase the sense of pain with strong vigor while other examples sooth it. The strange meaning, depending on the viewers perspective (or health) can be pleasent to look at or quite shocking, like an awareness about the bodies fitness, It`s just good to know! The artists’ development from the images as sometimes documented by patients is intuitive, using text and color in conjunction with other tools the artists better express an intuitive function just as a body part may be stimulated from damage for greater awareness. The work is based on pre-developed digital images of living people. Because of its high contrast and particular message in deformation most people associate it with death or trauma. The reassuring intention here is to further primitize curiosity in negation of such things and bring our own innate senses to the fore. This collaboration by "BluBark" entitled, consist of Sandor Barics and Hernando Rico Sanchez who plan other digital projects for the future. |