A CONVICTION TO NOT ONLY SURVIVE BUT TO EXIST WITH INTENTION

Rooted in cultural ironies, the collection reflects the inherited survival instincts shaping today’s generation. It responds to the global urgency and helplessness of our current political and environmental climate. Transforming these emotions into a quiet determination to still exist and still resist. By finding meaning in small beautiful moments and acts of resistance, the work asserts that life itself remains worth fighting for; even in the face of uncertainty.

The work tries to answer the crippling and ever present question of “But, what can one person do ?”. In the current capitalistic environment, where institutions that hold power and resources count on the exhaustion and helplessness caused by this question. The least one person can do is still live with intention and make conscious choices. In an economy where the consumer attention is leveraged against them, the least one person can do is be actively aware of what, where and to whom they give their time to. An expected human lifespan consists of 85 years, every choice coming from a place of social awareness in even 50 of those years can make a countable difference. One person can do a lot.

One person can resist and persist. One person can educate the person next to them, one person can ask and keep on asking agitating questions and one person can organise themselves with other such ‘one person’.

Collectively as a society there is a need to force ourselves out of the survival mode that we seem to have inherited from our ancestors. And step into existence that not only stands for something, but speaks up about it, followed by even seemingly small but consistent actions. Rome wasn’t build in a day. But a single day was enough to start what would be it’s eventual fall.