Future Fear
60” x 90”
60” x 90”
Digital Photography
1 of 6 pieces in an installation titled “Future Fear”
You can look at the entire installation and each individual photo on my website www.sethklekamp.com
Future Fear addresses the empty promises of modern civilization.
The photos look with a cynical eye at agricultural and technological revolutions, institutions, socialization, culture, discontent and the struggle to define our existence.
After 10,000 years of building a culture, I don’t think we are more free or happy then we were when we started. I think if anything we are more afraid, confused and empty. We work for money to define ourselves out of fear of a future without guarantee. We take our discontent out on other people, animals and the planet. In our struggle to give meaning and secure a future, we are pretty much destroying any chance we have at one.
I think a wise man once said:
It is you.
Cause a pressure drop.
Oh yeah pressure drop, a drop on you.
When it drops, oh you gonna feel it
Know that you were doing wrong.
- Frederick "Toots" Hibbert
9 comments:
Really love the content you have here. People really are losing out on a lot of life by trying to fast forward through it and give concrete definitions to everything they think life should be.
The subjective really hits home. We think that technology will save us, and perhaps it will to a point, but what will happen to our environment and the other creatures around us. How selfish are we?
Strong imagery that is able to uphold such a heavy topic. Thank you for being observant.
This is wonderful. Your description really caught my eye as its something I've thought a lot about, especially recently. Every day I can't help but let it bug me more and more. I try to do my part, but an individual can only do so much, and in a world with so many sins its impossible to avoid all these things if you want to partake in the culture you grew up in. Talk about dilemmas. Great imagery to back this up. I am hopefully going to Japan very soon and intend to do a photo series on the beauty, culture, history, etc of Japan, but after doing some readings I have recently, for example learning Japan has 70% of the world's dioxins and incinerates nearly all their waste, I fear my series may morph into something more like this... I really hope it doesn't have to be that way.
Your images are fantastic. The quality is stunning. Individually they remind me of pics from National Geographic... you know the ones which make life and environments seem alien and fantastical; foreign. Stringing them together as an instillation really describes your intent. Together they remind me of times when I've driven across parts of the country, trying to make meaning of the landscape and human existence, wondering... "do we really live like this?"
Seth I believe you have captured, both thru word and picture, the social future.
I hope in looking at the installation as a whole, its not totally pessimistic. I really believe there is grand potential for humans....
Its all very pretty.
Even when its ugly.
I find your installation very powerful with daunting imagery. I also think your content is really interesting as well- tecnological revolutions and agriculture- the thing that has allowed us time to be artists, but at the same time has allowed our population to grow to an absurd number ..wheres the balance between culture and environmental harmony? is there one? sigh..
Your photographs show this darkness but yet there is beauty.
pretty heavy, man. existentialism...something we all should consider. and yes, i love animals.
eric
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