Eli Miller

           Time and space today mean something completely different to what they did before. Our new technological age has trampled the truths we held as gospel regarding the connections we can make as humans from any point on earth to another. Long gone is the perilous voyage across the sea with the airplane, long gone is the delayed message by snail mail thanks to email and instant messenger services. As McLuhan puts it, "Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness. "Time" has ceased, "space" has vanished. We now live in a global village...a simultaneous happening." (Pg. 63).     My project titled "In With The New" is a representation of the generational disconnect that illustrates McLuhan's insights on our new experience of time and space. The main focus is a rainy scene where a large sundial casts no shadow due to the overcast weather as preoccupied students walk past it giving it no regard and treating it like an antiquated symbol of the

My name is Eli Miller. I am studying Psychology to become a sex therapist in the future. I find the impact of mental issues like trauma on physical things like sex and interpersonal relationships to be fascinating and it makes me feel called to action. Scarred Man Playing Basketball -thephoblographer.com I think "art" is a title for any type of medium we can use to encourage someone to feel something, anything, as long as it provokes some sort of thought or emotion. This is why art that is subversive or unsettling has a strong impact and is what stands the test of time. When a work of art leaves a scar on you that won't heal, it changes you and becomes a part of you, making it tougher to forget. "Innumerable confusions and a profound feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transitions. Our "Age of Anxiety" is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools-with yesterday's