Rough Draft Artist Statement: Yuki Miyazawa

Final Project Artist Statement

Look up. Look up from the screen and see the world around you. Life is more than a hashtag and the glamorous filtered photos of everyone’s exciting, adventurous, beautiful, and unique lives. There is more going on outside of social media’s frame of reference. All that can be seen are things at their best; whether it be people, places, activities, etc. When we see those things, we tend to compare it with our own seemingly dull, stagnant, ordinary lives. What we see on social media is everyone’s personal project creating a portfolio of their own landscapes of what we call Life.

With this series of images, it is hoped to bring to attention the beauty of the ordinary, the exciting in the dull, the liveliness in the stagnant and ordinary. By composing images with frames to symbolize what could potentially be a status update or post that one would see on social media; having the outside of the frame be the bigger picture, and the inside be what would be posted.