Cultural Mobility

In 1980 Andy Warhol made the statement that the only thing anyone had to be physically present for was parties and sex. Decades later, the reality of our mobile, wirelessly connected world could contradict even these last two exceptions. Indeed, we live in a disincarnated culture. The positive outcomes of such conveniences are incessantly proclaimed on the packaging of all the latest technological goods sold us. The negative implications come to us through experience and attentiveness. In any case, we find our cultural existence to be ‘normal’ and that it greatly shapes both our expectations and our very selves, as we have learned this way of being from birth.

My own formative years came within a family who had readily jumped in the now ubiquitous automobile, finding reason enough for travel and transference of residency. Today I observe a similar pattern within my adult life. I have lived in thirty-three homes in nineteen different cities in ten different states and one Canadian province during the eighteen years since graduating from college. Some cause lies within myself, some within the greater circumstances and culture in which I find myself.

These images are the beginning of my visual exploration of the experience and consequence of such a mobility.