Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.
We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.
We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.
We're living at this funny time, where we're all urged to express ourselves as unique individuals, but on the other hand, we share a limited set of tools for doing that. It's easy to feel like nothing more than the sum of your consumer choices.
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.
Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need.
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