The world has shifted, and technology has become extremely successful where a mass population has it in their pocket. It has created a shift in behaviors. It changed the way we communicate, the way we receive entertainment, and the way we explore knowledge. With assistance from photography, the devices we hold have more imaginative capability than words. This helps the psych to imagine a false reality and to make it real, like looking at a shirt online and imagining it fits well. Until you receive it in person and it doesn't fit and it looks like nothing in the image.  

 

I propose this project to make people wonder about how they use the technology that is always instant. Think about if you are using it too much? If it is used 6-10 hours of the day that means 6-10 hours of your life for that day was staring at the glass. It adds up as the days, months, and years go on. What was it for? To receive dopamine to make you feel good? To help you escape from the real world? Or to gather knowledge at the library within? This is a new generational problem. To seize back our minds from the obsessive use of technology. Use it with caution, with a purpose instead of numbing thoughts all the time.  

 

Digital consciousness is a project based on different forms of Fine Art Photography. I used self-portraits to express my own experience. Through self-portraits, I was creating a fantasy world based on the usage of the phone. Long exposure and multi-strobe photography were used to make a creative photo in motion that captured a surreal scene. Backdrops were created indoors to help push the concepts.