Cat Village

Technology speeds up the pace of our lives whether we want it to or not. I have a problem when individuals/groups say it makes our lives better. In fact is makes our lives more complicated. In the work environment technology abstracts jobs, takes thought away from workers, and completes tasks faster in order to produce more products. The high volume of products is then purchased by the consumer, who has to do mindless activity to earn money to buy them. My work is a representation of me, a person that works hard everyday with his hands. Both in the studio, and a the job that funds my endeavors. I enjoy this aspect of my life, but what I do not enjoy is my quest for material items. I asked myself what starts the process, the object, or the money to buy the object. (pardon the Chicken/egg problem) I decided it was the created need for money, the idea that money runs everything. I've found I live a life of little satisfaction, what satisfaction still survives comes at home and in the studio. The constant stain for cash, the this object we need to survive, takes all satisfaction out of life. Workers don't work because they enjoy standing next to a giant wired mass, with buttons, lights, and bells, they work because they need money. What if started to take it back? What if I earned my money and kept it? appropriating it for a better cause.