This week’s student work of art is brought to you by Mike Cianca ‘12. The following is an explanation of the piece by none other than Cianca himself.
This photograph is from a set of four images called “Human Clutter.” It was my final project for Peter Nelson’s Photo II class.
Today, art functions not as two dimensional imagery, but rather as a medium through which ideas and questions are communicated to others. In this series, I wanted to overwhelm the viewer with inescapable clutter that has effortlessly become a part of everyday life for most Americans. At which point do we, as participants in a highly materialistic and consumerist society, lose awareness of our belongings as single entities? When does our identity fall victim to the overpowering mass of these possessions?
