And thus 6 weeks of summer work: 200+ youth and 30+ teachers comes to a close. We finished with a workshop on Google 360 and learning how to set up our iPhones as virtual goggles to see a panorama of our nature experiences. It was wonderful, but surreal. I was able to travel all around the world and view the 1/2 dome as if I was in that location (including standing in Cicero or getting off the train in Roskilde, Denmark.
Bottom line, we can capture everything in a virtual world, but it doesn't mean the world is sustained or felt. There's beauty in the technology and I love every second of it, but we fail to recognize the humanity of it all.
Prompted to reflect on the experience (in a very short time), I went poetic. Reading Landscapes: Writing Nature in the 21st Century - this was a little Total Recall for me, where nature is best experienced on a screen.
Virtually Real, Really Virtual
We are a blur,
hypnotically captured in a shoebox
of yesterday’s photographs,
specters and spooks
in the crevices and nooks
of history.
Waves don’t roll,
rivers don’t run.
Friends and family are partially etched
in disappearing time.
Thoughts are circular,
molecular, but only half
the dome is roamed….
the lines disconnect the real
from what we virtually hope is truth.
A google of geese
are frozen shadows across blue sky…
a façade of wings
flying through a simulacra of migration.
Church congregations
sit stills
with frozen prayers
never to be heard.
Clouds become
time-capsules
trapped in a culture of voyeurism.
The virtue
of morally bankrupt
dehumanization
is the antonym
of what it means to be alive.
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