2019 Senior Thesis I
SMOKE & MIRRORS
In this fast-paced era, we live in a society of yearners, for whom it seems escaping reality becomes the only source of real. In 1915, British playwright and novelist, William S. Maugham, stated; “It looks as if they were victims of conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life.”
These years feel like they will last forever, but then one day they are gone. It does not matter where or when it happens, coming of age is brutal. Emerging adulthood is smoke and mirrors; it is a disguised attempt that youth is full of warmth, joyfulness and celebration. It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
Smoke & Mirrors is an ongoing portrait project centered around youth and its subcultures, and the transition from adolescences to adulthood. Through the exploration of self-identity and instability evolves a series capturing the feeling often hidden in our society.
