Triptych: Technology in My Daily Life

            These three videos are connected because they each have human constructed elements in them, for example one has a computer, one has a treadmill, and one has a house. Each video shows how nature inter-plays with society and they each contrast each other in different ways. Although these video clips do not focus on sublime nature, they demonstrate how nature fits into my daily life.

          The first video presents my distant relationship with the natural world. While I mostly run inside during the winter, sometimes I run inside during perfectly beautiful spring days. In this video, it seems like I purposely distance myself from nature. The video shows how I see nature as a scenic experience, something to look at, but not necessarily adventure into. While I look at the outside world when I run, I distance myself from it, because as I run towards it, I am never able to reach it. The second short clip demonstrates a similar reaction to nature. I always use beautiful scenic views for my computer desktop because I like looking at the vast, unchanged environment. Similar to the first video, I enjoy looking at nature, but not living in it. However in contrast to the first vine, the second shows how society pressures people to enjoy sublime nature, while in the first video, I pressure myself to look at nature. The second clip also shows how uncommon nature is. While people try to make natural scenery part of human culture, reality shows how the natural world is distant and hardly reachable. The third video clip contrasts the others because instead of demonstrating my distant feelings towards nature, it shows how I feel close with it. Every day when I come home from school, I always feel like I have emerged from a cave, where I was held all day and forced to look at blank walls. Similar to the “Allegory of the Cave” after school, I feel like I have been trapped from the sunlight and the outside world. However when I come home, I sit for a few moments and look outside at the trees and the water in my backyard, and a calm feeling washes over me. When I look at computer pictures of scenic views, or when I run towards nature, never able to reach it, the peaceful feeling of living in nature seems unattainable. However, in the third clip, I have attained the peaceful feeling. 

First Vine: Indoors vs. in nature

Second Vine: Reality

 Third Vine: Enjoying nature