This artwork is about how much information we read online each day, but how most of it just disappears before as our eyes, and we ignore it. It also reflects how sometimes the most important information doesn't affect us, where as just 20 years ago it would have been a different story.
With modern day technology, we are exposed to almost everything online, including things of horror, macabre and just things that we shouldn't be seeing often. This includes video games, where the graphics are becoming more and more life-like, almost making us feel as though we're there, right in the middle of a battlefield shooting someone down. We see them fall down, but it has no impact on us as it's what we've gotten used to as we grew up.
Me, personally, was allowed to play violent video games when I was younger, but I haven't realised how much this has impacted me, as well as seeing horrific images in the news as technology has got more advanced. I grew up seeing these types of things, so I thought nothing to it until I saw this. The modern day people have got used to so many horrifying statistics, images and events that they have almost become normal to us. They don't shock us anymore, when really it should do, as we now care much less than before.
The way the piece of artwork is designed it rather unique, it lives up to the message on the paper, and it reflects what we see in day to day life but ignore it. By showing these shocking facts in this way, it really opens up our eyes and minds as to what we're missing, and makes me wonder 'how much are we reading but ignoring in day to day life?'. I believe the aim of this project is to shock the viewers, into realising what has become of this world and how little people know about whats really happening out there in different countries.
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