Journeys Of Social Change

The portfolio you are about to immerse yourself in is based on the study and travel experiences realized between the Fall of 2015 and 2017 under the auspicious umbrella of the Masters of Environmental Studies, within the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. The work is an exploration of the theme of self as social transformation within the enclave of Tools and Technologies. It combines three separate yet relatable pieces: A photographic series, an essay and an epistolary which as a whole act as a visual and written reflection on the effects that the tools and technologies in which humankind find themselves inevitably embedded have on the ‘real’ world of bodies, as well as in the aspects of meaning-making for which we must be held accountable. The intention behind the portfolio was threefold. On the one hand I wanted to deepen my own understanding of the house in which I live –a house built by different kinds of technologies with its secret entry doors, passage ways and escape routes. On the other, I was hoping that in the intricacies of its assemblage I would be able to find the inflections where intervening in the ongoing patterns of objectification of human, animal, pant and mineral worlds would be possible. At last, I was also wishing to find a bigger house and more nuanced language from which to communicate my experience of the last decade and a half with Buddhist thought and practice and the way it has transformed my way of being and thinking.