experience. I explore the question of what it means to be human and our understanding of ‘place’ within the world. Maurice Merleau Ponty’s essay ‘Eye and Mind’ examines how art displays the act of viewing, extending from Martin Heidegger’s Being-in-the-world, ‘The Sense of Being’. Ponty examines the paradox of human vision. The body that sees also sees itself — in other words, we not only perceive the world but also ourselves within it. The intention of this project is to document my physical
mirror itself as it's image. In more technical terms, the infant establishes their subjectivity through the fantasy image. This image allows for the creation of ideal others,
Quoting an unknown source, Fredric Jameson once exclaimed that “it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” (“Future City” n.pag). Mark Fischer in his book titled Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative builds on this notion and says that there is a “widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable and political economic system, but also that it is impossible to even imagine a coherent alternative to it” (8). What makes capitalism such an overwhelming