Caleb G.

  "The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past"(McLuhan 74) When I saw what we had to do last week for this assignment I was pretty sick and was having a hard time keeping track of time or space. Which led to me filming myself in bed just sleeping at different stages of the day. I boiled that footage down to one minute hopefully capturing the essence of being sick and in delirium with the time. I chose this quote from McLuhan because without reading the book I had decided to make this project about being sick because it was the most recent event that had happened in my life so in a way it felt like McLuhan was right. To me, this time was completely nonlinear, and all over the place which can be perceived differently by different people. Like my roommate who might have experienced the time in a more streamlined or linear way. I boosted the sound of the heater in my r...

 "Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up— that is our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice"(McLuhan 18). When I was a kid I spent way too much time watching TV when other kids were out playing outside I was watching Gossip Girl or some random movie. I spent so much time constantly consuming media and culture that it made me want to create my own. I used to make videos and skits with my cousins where we pretended to have our own movies/Tv shows. As an artist, my development has been driven by exploration. The best way I can describe my process is that I’m “just trying stuff” and seeing what works. Experimentation is my guide, whether that means dabbling in new mediums or refining familiar ones. Photography is a medium I’ve worked in extensively, but recently, I’ve been rediscovering painting (I also have a horrible habit of starting paintings and not finishing them)...