Me and my camera in my home town, my capital city, my london
this week’s photographs have been loosely grouped under my recurring theme ‘thru the looking glass’. Even though glass is an invisible barrier it still makes us feel that we are separated and can view what’s on the other side without feeling like we are in anyway involved. And yet, the object of our focus is bound by the same laws as quantum physics…our very observation will in fact alter what we are viewing. We have an influence whether it feels like it or not.
Current physics theories suggest there is no such thing as passive surveillance, something our our Home Secretary Theresa May, who is proposing our Government’s “Snooping Charter” which has been described as “the most invasive surveillance regime in the West” should take note of.
A friend of mine told me he tapes up the camera on his computer because he knows it can be hacked into and used in reverse. I was slightly shocked and may have inferred to my friend that he was ever so slightly ‘nuts’ and then I went home and immediately got out the gaffer tape and blocked mine up too. Paranoid contagion.
It sounds excessive and maybe just a few short steps from thinking the CIA is transmitting coded signals into the fillings in your teeth but the revelations of Edward Snowden showed that all our paranoia was in fact correct. Everything is being recorded so technically it isn’t paranoia anymore because it is actually happening. We are being observed. It is having an effect.
I am therefore proposing that ‘paranoia’, no longer the confines of the insane be rebranded as “paratruth”. Lets get that all-important hashtag up front and get this baby out there. #Paratruth is happening!
p.s If you would like to know how my brain got from shop windows to quantum physics to government surveillance please consult my physician…actually maybe I should.