The narrative has an over-arching plot, one in which human civilization has ultimately changed due to human technological creations that have infused with the body, creating a new human. Civilization, history, culture.... all has been forgotten in this future world as the technological infusion split cognition, rendering human beings incapable of self-recognition. During the split, human beings no longer had self awareness, they become aimless wanderers living on a primal instinct. After an unknown duration of time, humans began to gain back their sense of self, they were aware of themselves as ‘beings in the world’. They began to question their existence, in an abstract sense, as they had no systems of communication to discuss the matter with each other. Intuitively, they began to look at the remnants around them, or the materials that present day has created and left behind. Just like humans of today, they began gathering resources and creating objects.
To understand where they came from, they looked to cultural artifacts (such as images that contained beings like themselves except of different colors) and saw things like clothing and buildings. In an attempt to put the clues together, they began to re-create things (like clothing), but in their own way as the new human body has a different way of understanding itself in relation to the world.
Due to the symbiotic relationship of the integrated technology and the human body, ALL future humans are silver. The silver acts as a protective covering regulating moisture release and body temperature. Procreation, bodily waste, digestion, etc. are all regulated by the technology, as it needs its host in order to survive. Once the body is no longer capable of maintaining its physical form, the future people emit their memories within the Vessel that they have created during their life time. The memories act as parables, or stories in which to communicate lessons in life.
The narrative does not exist in a complete written form, rather, it is being constructed through multiple components such as character studies through digital photography, clothing design, video and sound manipulation. The narrative itself is ever-evolving as are the Vessels.
I have been developing a series of digital photographs and video to build the timeline and characters. During September of 2010, I wrote and directed a film (with a team of people) in New Edinburgh, Nova Scotia. I, Tina Zagyva, play one of the characters in the film.(un-named) During the course of my life, it is my intention to film myself as this role, to document aging; building layers to the story through time.