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While we Swallow Deception

How do we endure living in our innocence in modern western culture, while so many other people suffer in other parts of the world, how can we approve and appreciate increased surveillance of citizens, consumerism, dehumanising urbanisation and the total cultivation of the perfect body via plastic surgery and body alterations as seen on TV programs such as sitcoms, adverts, music videos and films, where everyone is young, with perfect noses, big lips and the right sized breasts, all the artificiality about our outer shells and the unnatural unilateral formations that are created in that culture.
With all this and more how can we refuse to share our wealth with refugees, only to spend the money on tourist imperialism or on needs created by the dream world on huge billboard advertisements right in front of us when we wait for a train and cannot look away, because they are all over. How can we stand it on daily basis?
How can we approve of the increased surveillance, everybody I ask says "I don’t have anything to hide, so I don't care", but what about that day there is something you disagree about.
When I read my paper in the morning I become frustrated and embarrassed, because I am part of choosing this eccentric setup, where some people have more then enough and other parts of the world have too little.
How do we stand keeping our minds on the surface?
These pictures is not full of unique new thoughts, it is pictures I need to do, to endure being a citizen in this suffocating culture, of strange globalization.
I work by reflecting over the things I meet in the daily papers and society at large. The series is a social critic, which relates to contemporary tendencies. When I work with digitally altered images, they are usually first is created in my mind as a reaction from thoughts and emotions. Making these images is like playing, I don't mean that I don't take them serious, when I call it playing it is the knowledge that when you work with computer manipulated images everything is possible, that's when the playing starts. The synthetic, artificial and surrealistic look of the altered images reflects perfectly my feelings about contemporary life in the western world.