Social Commentary "When is it Enough?"

I began this project by thinking of what things bother me in society. A large issue that I have caught myself being part of is the distraction of  technology. Yes, technology has helped our world grow and develop to find many solutions to our problems, but it has also taken us away from what is actually going on around us in the physical world. That is how I came to this idea. Two girls sitting on a bench in the park, not speaking to one another verbally but over a tweet; they are bored out of their mind and don't know what to do, but stair at their handheld devices. Little do they know that a bunch of famous celebrities decided to take a stroll through the park on the same day they are sitting there. They are oblivious to their surroundings. Personally, that part scares me. I have been involved and witnessed incidents where two or more people would be sitting around each other only to be glued to their phones; there was no interaction between them whatsoever. Like said before, I have had fallen as a victim of that several times, but I catch myself doing it and then I try to interact with those around me. A few years from now what will the definition of socializing be? Not talking to someone unless they can text? Tweet? Facebook? When will there be enough social networking sites? When will we be satisfied with having enough technology? When is it enough?

All the appropriated material in this piece did not violate copyright law because I took all of these images out of their original context and they were used to create a parody to enforce a message to society.

My piece conveys, as I mentioned before, that technology is taking away our every day-to-day physical social interaction. It is taking it away to the point of which we become oblivious to the physical world around us. My piece shows this visually by having the two girls talking to each other over twitter about being bored even though they are right next to each other; on top of that there are a bunch of celebrities practically in front of their faces and the two girls don't notice a single thing.