What Do My Eyes See?

It’s not everyday you get to go a museum. And not every year that you get to visit one like the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design. And yet, still a rare occasion to be able to visit it as it provides a collection of what the world is to come in the the future. Making you ask yourself whether the world that we see in right now, would it be the one that people would still see in 20 years time. What makes you wonder though, are we seeing what we actually see? Or does the human only want to see what they want to see in the world around us.

What is it like to see? People have always provided numerous definitions and interpretations on what perception is in the world. That the things we see around us, are really what the mind is really seeing. There is no other reality or substitution that can be made to actually replace the reality that is already present around us. Meaning, the eyes see the world, the world in turn is understood by our mind. Therefore, the world as we see it unfold around us, is the only reality that can occur. No other instances of events that make certain parts in what we see can be changed. A dog as we see it is a dog. Or a blooming flower is nothing more than a blooming flower. This is the world that we live right now. Anything, and everything that transpires will always be what we see.

Now, it is a rare opportunity to be able to go to a museum that is primarily focused on somehow making you think. Letting you use the deepest parts of your mind to understand what each piece in the museum is trying to tell you. The exhibits featured revolved around the idea of the future that will come. Whether it is be a utopian society that we would live in, or rather one which is a dystopic in nature. The way the curator presented this is through the changes that has occurred in society. Making use of the recent aftermath of the tsunami and nuclear fallout in Japan one of its lead examples. Imagine a society where people have moved away from the cities...