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uestioning the artificiality of the altered landscape, how much of our environment is constructed and unnatural? As we traverse this pervasive landscape, how does it exert influence over understanding and subjective functioning? Visual assumptions and expectations frame our perceptual responses, often in unconscious ways that informs a counterfeit veracity. Although we are prisoners of the cultural paradigms and subsequent associated physical manifestations that unavoidably surround, within limits we can control our individual response. Finding the restrictions of the malleable reaction establishes our level of awareness.
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” - Oscar Wilde
