project 1 - completed

on place


With this project my intention was to portray a shift in perception of a place through age. I chose to document and juxtapose images of my preschool and the church I was raised in because religion played a leading role in my childhood but is now the subject of a growing resentment in my adult life. As a three-year-old, unaware of what the word "christian" even meant, I was enrolled into First Christians preschool and had been attending church regularly even earlier than that.

Blissfully ignorant at the time that I was being brainwashed and trained to promote a belief system I knew nothing about, the majority of this video represents my younger self, a care free individual simply observing an environment around him with no function to serve other than to be a school and playground. The end is a glance back from the present day, with the knowledge and wisdom I feel I've accumulated thus far, seeing Christ the King church for what it really is to me - a place devoted to the practice of controlling young and old minds alike to live in fear, guilt, naivety and confusion until the day they die, all based on a bunch of lies.