a call for caring

Social media has created an interesting generational gap about its purpose or necessity in our lives. The American community has changed dramatically in the past few generation with the onset of the automobile and global economy having the most dramatic resonance. A community from tribes to a town contained a variety of people that had different jobs and skills to contribute to the survival of one another. Technology has separated this relationship so much the relationship between us so stretched that we hardly understand what draws us togeather as human beings. Technology has done such a good job providing the necessities such as cloths, food and water that we have allowed its ugliness to surround and dictate our existence. This is difficult because reason gives us no relief because it is reason that brought us to this point. We need to shift away from what is reasonable and instead invest into what is quality. Our lifestyle need to include things that are created with care. Every aspect of our life need to be taken the right piece of mind, their is no task too mundane for caring. Quality may not necessarily have an improvement on function but instead pull us togeather as a community. Social networking is filling a niche for people who's community has left them without culture or human relationship to sustain them.

Greeken Urns that held wine or Hopi vases that carried corn were everyday object then but are now in museums as pieces of art. Do you think in a hundred of years from now they will put beer bottles or McDonald Styrofoam cups in museum (even though they will last forever as trash)? In the past art and technology shared the same purpose: to connect and contribute to your community. We have allowed technology has separated us so much that we feel helpless to effect or change our relationship with the community. The ugliness of technology can no longer be forgiven for its convenience. Every aspect of life needs to take a more artful approach. We will use less if we share a personal connection with everything we touch. Would you waste a plate of food if you knew the name of the chicken? or would you be more willing to maintain your car if your neighbor built it for you? Everything that is made by man can be a piece of art if the person who was creating it took the attention, time and sensitivity to give it a soul. I want the chair I am sitting in to be sculpted not manufactured, i want the chicken that I am eating to be nurtured not grown. Can we still care?