SARA PROCTER

TRANSITINALLY OBDURATE

Baudelaire, in his book 'The Painter of Modern Life' (1863), defines the beauty of modernity as a constant movement between "the eternal and immoveable" and "the transient, the fleeting, the contingent". He also explains how certain memories, such as attachment to sounds or nostalgia with objects, create another layer to the artistic experience. This gives each viewer an individual journey as the old and the new combine to create what Baudelaire describes as "self-doubling" triggering a more powerful creative response.

DATA

 This piece was created as a reflection for giving up all forms of the internet for a month.

"Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net.

To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation.

Outsource memory, and culture withers"  Nicolas Carr, 2010

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ON LIBERTY

Shot on an iPhone and edited on an iPad, this piece is a reflection on John Stewart Mill's Book 'On Liberty'.

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