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name
Andrew Ross
media
photography, video, digital arts
education
University of North Carolina,
BA Philosophy, 1998
phone
919.260.7537
web pages
andrewross.com
web.art.fsu.edu/ross
eyeproject.andrewross.com
commercial.andrewross.com
Flickr photo sets
The
urbanization, globalization, and over-population of our world have brought
about a new sense of place, a new notion of how we define our home or our
comfort zone within our citified realities. Shopping
malls, corner coffee shops, the streets themselves are our living rooms;
professional sports arenas and gentrified performances are our recreation. Has
our culture become so socialized that it is (we are) no longer social? It
seems the closer we get to each other, the farther we are apart. Loneliness
and isolation are prevalent in our multitudinous urban societies.
My work looks for an escape from this reality, a place of comfort within the harsh and rigid surroundings of steel, concrete, and asphalt. But are we able to be comforted? Seeking an escape, a place of my own, I capture intimate windows into an unreal world that we may dream to enter with the hopes of leaving our troubles, confusion, and chaos behind. But perhaps we only become more discomfited – uncertain of even our own reality that surrounds us, pushing in on all sides.