Our sense of time-value has altered because of the fast paced lifestyle that society forces. “New time saving technologies make workers more productive, not more free, in a world that seems to be accelerating around them. Too, the rhetoric of efficiency around these technologies suggest that what cannot be quantified cannot be valued…” 1 Time-value has been changing since the Industrial Revolution. Although technology has improved the standard of living beyond the ambitions of our pre-Industrial society, it has reached a point where its infiltration in daily life has become detrimental.
Communication and simulation technologies have opened up new ways of relating to and experiencing the world. Interface-to-interface relation is more common that face-to-face, or face-to-place, interaction. People navigate their daily lives within constructed interiors that limit interaction with actual people and the actual world.
My work does not demerit or elevate the presence of technology in our lives. It intends to encourage interaction between people and their environment. To offer reprise from a lifestyle that struggles to provide time and space for direct engagement.
1 Solnit, Rebecca. Wanderlust: a History of Walking. New York: Viking, 2000. Print.
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