Klaus: I really like the fact that it’s found materials. It adds more of that tactile feeling.
My name is Klaus. I am part of the Teens of Residence program at the MoMA. And this is, We Don't Wait for the Light, We Make It.
This art piece has two main components, with one being a wheel like structure made out of a DVD, and then the other side being made out of an elevated light bulb with building like structures in between.
One detail that makes me very curious is the scale of the buildings comparison to the other pieces of the artwork. These are materials that you would find in real life but I think but this person is not trying to make like a one-to-one ratio with things that we already know, it sort of adds this fantastical element to it.
It's definitely giving a a post apocalyptic future where the world goes back sort of into a time before industrialization. But I don't know if I necessarily see it in a negative light. I think it's more of like letting humanity and nature become one.
Currently, our relationship between technology and nature is very much separate. We respect technology more than we do nature. I feel like, especially in my day-to-day life, as I walk through the city, the only pieces of nature that we see are very controlled.
But I think as we progress with technology, we should focus very intensely on preserving nature. ‘Cause I feel like if we keep going the way we’re going, we might not have any nature at all, or even a future.