Keeping it Together in the 21st Century
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Last Modified: December 6, 2007 Issue: December 2007 |
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Peru Who’s Peru? And why should you care?
Peru’s a talented cat. Combining a fun conscious style and his developed illustrative education, Peru Dyer is an artist to be reckoned with. Taking his moniker from the mean streets he grew up on, this guy is major tour de force. His art evokes the frenzied emotion of youth with a grown up sensibility of a man who cares for the very state of our environment. He wants his art to make you live and breathe the way a child does. He wants you to feel young again and check your responsibilities at the door. “We take our imagination for granted,” he says. “As an artist I feel I have a mission to educate and inspire.” Peru has recently returned from exhibiting his works throughout Europe from Vienna to Barcelona , and plans to continue on his mission of collective upliftment.
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I think this is a pretty apt depiction of modern life for the average person! I was always amazed when I talked to my grandmother, who grew up in a small pre-war Polish village, how much work she did. Yet, there appeared to be more coherence, more meaning to her actions, than in our modern world, that consequently reduced her emotional stress. We, stuck navigating an ever-changing technological landscape, juggling a plethora of recreational activities for ourselves and our children, and coping with increasingly complex demands on our productivity, face some interesting challenges that others before us have not faced. We may actually work less (at least physically), and have more access to conveniences (at least for some of us), but we also face the difficulty, as you put it, of “keeping it together”. I’m looking forward to the next part!
I really like that clock! I may have to make one like that for myself.
About the message, I’d agree: in the 21st century, it’s gone from “keeping it real” to “keeping it together”. This is the age of multi-tasking but getting less done, of convenience but more confusion and headaches, of more variety but less choice.
this was a school project, i just had the title, “keeping it together in the 21st century” and it had to be sequential art..i always wanted to do a comic strip so i went for that and brainstormed all the problem archetypes of the modern age and stuffed them together to point out what a ridiculous reality we’ve created for ourselves
the clock reads “peru”