Lifting the Veil

LIFTING THE VEIL

Right or left? Vaccinated or unvaccinated? Educated or uneducated? Guns or no guns? Pro-choice or Pro-life? The division is endless.

No matter your standpoint, it is fairly obvious that the world is in chaos. The intention is not to get anyone to choose a side because honestly, I don’t think there can ever be one flawless answer or precise position. There will always be differing viewpoints. That will never change, nor should it. Instead my proposition is that these opinions have many contradictions. Perhaps if we take a step back. What if instead of immediately forming an opinion we attempt to see no side. Maybe even see the humor in how contradictory everything is. Perhaps there is no one true side that is right, but an in-between that does not yet have a title assigned to it.

With this project, the “American Dream” is shown as lacking. The veil over this assumed ideal is being lifted and examined. To see contradiction so blatantly is fantastical and a bit humorous. Everything is ridiculous really. This is an invitation to question everything. To question your own framework. What type of frame are you looking through and how has this been created? All that you now know has been learned, so who have been your teachers? What have you read, watched, experienced? Is it not possible, that if you had been raised in a far away land with the opposite beliefs, you might have a different point of view than you do in this moment? Of course you would. We are all born without political views and an opinion on gun ownership or vaccination stances. All that you know has come from your personal experience, but we all have our own.

If we are able to embrace this idea that there is no one, singular correct answer. That everything must be questioned and looked at from all angles, it is a start to lifting the veil that has been put over our eyes. The veil or bubble we have created for ourselves. The environment we are raised in. It is in conflict with itself constantly. How can you start to peek through your own?

Emily Alberts