4D Intermedia: Gabriel Laborin

  Can be one of the biggest aids to us as humans, but how much do you DEPEND on it in our day to day life. How much of that dependency holds us back from growing to what God has planned for us. How much of our life is consumed by watching the screen and living a digital life rather than the physical one we are actually in. We can get so wrapped up in the screen and how they can help us or how fun it is, we forget we have to unplug to reconnect. Often getting stuck in our own head, it is so easy to fall into the comfort of constant dopamine and feeling like you need to be in the know. But what God has planned for our lives is to live in HIS creation, which is eternal, not the temporary thrill of the internet.  Phone representing the short life span of what we find on the phone an how that can steal our attention from what is truly eternal. 

  I found this project extremely healing, not only from seeing my own cherished object but from learning about others objects as well. When we first got the prompt for the project I immediately knew the memory  that had the strongest emotional impact for me, and I'm sure it was the same for others. Using that excitement of remembering my object, I wanted to better understand my FEELINGS partner, Elena's Story and her object. It was fascinating to see how some of the same emotions were brought up from such different stories and how vividly they are recalled. I could see her story and feel what she was going through at the time and thinking about how reconnecting with that object might feel, was a joyous experience and made working on the project that more meaningful.     Seeing my own object was definitely healing as I stated before, regardless of how accurate it was to the actual object. I really enjoyed how we had to recite what we remember about it kind of pointing...