(Please be alert that this section may be slow to load, because it contains over 7000 images! Moreover, due to the great volume of images, the image quality on some images has been altered so that they load faster; and due to the batch-processing software conversion, some images may have been unintentionally flipped sideways.) “Modern” art... and the wasted time creating it while “modern” life killed quite a bit many – is not even close to being my favorite project, but I have become so accustomed to it that it's become like a second nature for me to take pictures that I deem “worthy” of being taken, edit some of them, and store them. What exactly is this project about? The title should clarify it as much as possible: I will turn to a bohemian mind who is oblivious to his surroundings and to the ailments of the world; I will take a picture of a scene that I like – which will have something unordinary about it, and I will keep it. And there you go, by being involved in my non-socially-oriented artistic endeavors, I will be wasting time; and this will happen while “modern” life kills quite a bit many. I will also continue to waste time by looking and amusing myself once in a while at my creations. (99.9% of the pictures here belong in this category, while the remaining 0.1% are other pictures that I basically put in here because there is no separate section for them.) The viewer will also be dragged into this project of wasting time – especially if a particular image is more enticing and the viewer is staring at it. This project is a giant (in volume) mockery of retinal art. We all enjoy it, don't we? Why would we instead not be preoccupied with socially-oriented art? First of all, we are all so accustomed to living as individual units independent of each other, that it'd be very hard to fathom – what it means to work together on socially-oriented projects in regards to the obtaining of our needs, as opposed to working on our individually-oriented endeavors for the obtaining of the same needs. But then the other thing is that, socially-oriented art is not pretty; it's not “modern,” it's too ordinary, and it doesn't distinguish you from the rest of the people; and to distinguish yourself from others, to outcompete them, and to defeat them – is what we are taught from early age, aren't we? We all want to be in an Andy Warhol's la-la land pop-culture, don't we? We all want to put our blinds on and divorce ourselves from doing social work instead of self-promoting work. If you don't follow these cultural expectations, if you don't look after yourself and you only look after others, you will not go far in life.... This project started in 2005 and it contains only digital images, many of which are digitally altered. Do you see how by digitally enhancing them I am wasting even more time – by not doing anything significant in life? I can't do anything significant because I am not in a position to intervene... just as most of us, who in our mundane lives are in the same gridlocked position – and are incapable of intervening to retailor the fabric of everyday life (in regards to the obtaining of our needs).
