Pink-colored lenses

"Seeing life through pink-colored lenses" is what I’ve been doing my whole life. Not intentionally, more of an innate sense of self preservation. T.S. Eliot said: "Humankind cannot bear very much reality." ​It is in our genes to live in a state of constant denial. It's the way we protect ourselves. We alienate ourselves behind a pair of pink-colored lenses. We believe that bad things are less likely to happen to us than is actually the case. Same with memories as we dress up the past to suit the present because only a congenital version of reality will keep us sane. America has a way of filtering everything it is fed to consumers, especially when it delivers the news. Always proper and tastefully presented. Never gruesome, dirty, bloody… real? At memorials there are always loads of flowers. Beautiful flowers. Beauty heals a wounded soul. So you are there, in front of the news where horrid words of violence are met with images of beautiful flowers, accompanied by people grieving… Beauty and deep emotions. This series is exactly that moment. A juxtaposition meant to mitigate the senses. No generation has been able to bear reality. Our generation is simply the first that have the opportunity to construct a virtual alternative that is more bearable. ​