Flat Daddy.  Flat Mommy.  Flat reality.  These four videos examine how image representation is increasingly inter-changed with human reality.

Of course, coping in times of great stress, like having your loved ones shipped off for war, family psychological demands can manifest in unlikely and abnormal behavior.  But we are also clearly seeing deeper examples of images being accepted, even encouraged, as the real thing.

Photo images, in these cases, are not merely hung on walls or mantles for respect and refection.  These images of loved ones are not being honored or revered like posters hung on a teenager’s bedroom walls.  These life-sized images are also not doll substitutions. Instead, these images are mentally transformed into human reality.  The picture is the Daddy - for child and adult. Whether or not this image replacement is done in 2D or 3D, are we increasingly interchanging human existence with image representation – with a “screen reality?  Do we prefer to view reality through images and screens?  Are these graven images?  Can we tell the difference?

Cultural Farming: Screen Reality

Consider visual literacy and grow better media communication.