Time’s up.

Let’s all stand against it.

It is what we choose to see and how we see it.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts. – A

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. -A

To find yourself, think for yourself. -S

This is the World We Made.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. -s

Final project – This class has taught me so much. That being said I also was able to explore the parts of myself that usually do not choose to explore. Who would have thought from being waitlisted in the class then hoping all winter break to get in and then finally getting into the class!. This class has been a journey of improvement, learning and exposure to me personally. As the semester came to an end I was wondering about all the projects that I had done for my photography class and thought what my “Final Project” should be based on.I kept an eye out for all the possible ideas/topics that I could base my final project on. One fine day, as I sat through my philosophy class and listened to a discussion on Borderlands by Gloria Anzaldua I knew then I had to do a project in connection with my philosophy class and to somehow input everything I had learned into to my 8 photo series. My series of pictures was inspired by great photographers like Robert Mallapetrope and Minor White and how they as photographers made connections to their work based on their own personal life scenarios or what was really close to one’s heart.

          These pictures that I have created tell a story about humans and I as the narrator/director of the story want to see a change in the world and remind people that the time has come to realize the importance to coexists as humans. All the stories of religion, hate, cast and creed were all imagined by humans just like us many years ago for instance this quote “Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’. Hammurabi would have said the same about his principle of hierarchy, and Thomas Jefferson about human rights. Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But don’t tell that to our servants, lest they murder us at night.”  My point here is that we are living in a world that someone imagined and made so-called norms that we follow today without question why we do this.

To end, “Two Catholics who have never met can nevertheless go together on crusade or pool funds to build a hospital because they both believe that God was incarnated in human flesh and allowed Himself to be crucified to redeem our sins. States are rooted in common national myths. Two Serbs who have never met might risk their lives to save one another because both believe in the existence of the Serbian nation, the Serbian homeland and the Serbian flag. Judicial systems are rooted in common legal myths. Two lawyers who have never met can nevertheless combine efforts to defend a complete stranger because they both believe in the existence of laws, justice, human rights – and the money paid out in fees. Yet none of these things exists outside the stories that people invent and tell one another. There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings.”

― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind