Reflection: This week I learned from set reading that as Haraway said, ‘In fact, staying with the trouble requires learning to be truly present, not as a vanishing pivot between awful or edenic pasts and apocalyptic or salvific futures, but as mortal critters entwined in myriad unfinished configurations of places, times, matters, meanings. ‘(Haraway, 2016) She said that we need to live in the present, face and feel these damaged environments. We also mentioned this in class discussion, so I also used this theory in this experiment. I took photos of the trees swaying in the wind, the pillars on the roadside rusting due to years of disrepair, the land becoming desolate because no one was taking care of it, and the lonely grass on it made it even more desolate. Because of the human factors, the cracks caused by no one taking care of it, and the garbage thrown randomly on the ground, the damaged environment at the back contrasts with the beautiful environment at the beginning of the video, showing the devastated environment. This strong contrast can better let the audience  face these destroyed environments instead of avoiding them. In this video, I focused on shooting details, and the audience can also experience the destroyed environment through these details. If I want to develop it further, I will Add some green surroundings so that they can contrast better with the destroyed environment.

Reference:

Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rmit/reader.action?docID=4649739