

We as people are always looking out from our intricately personal worlds with one point of view – our own. We guard our opinions with barbed wire – some of us are more accepting of letting other thoughts in, some build high walls to deter them. We are self absorbed in our own crafts and collections of ideas, and we create worlds for ourselves centered around our beliefs.
I made one half of this set a photograph of a Nazi bunker at Point du Hoc, which carries a negative connotation, and one half a photograph of a painter/craftsman at work, which carries a positive connotation. I did this to show that our worlds and the personal beliefs we manufacture are unique to us; they are positive. The negative aspect of our lives is guarding those thoughts so heavily – we treat them as something shameful, and thus guard them figuratively with barbed wire and stones. We imagine ourselves impenetrable and bare inside, which the bunker symbolizes, when in reality we are inherently positive beings. The stone walls in both photographs tie them together.
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