Lovesick over Future.

The Future is not real. It's an imagined concept, but also one that has incredible power over our daily lives.

Thinking too much about it generates fear, anxiety, and distressing emotions based on something that doesn’t exist today and may never be. Even under the best of circumstances, fantasizing too much about a brighter tomorrow diminishes the value of what we are and have now in a way.

My idea emphasizes the absurdity of being obsessed by what is not. Sigmund Freud asked rhetorically, "Isn't what we mean by 'falling in love' a kind of sickness and craziness, an illusion, a blindness to what the loved person is really like? and this really resonated with me as I was dreaming up this project.

We project all our hopes into this mystical Future; obsessing about either tomorrow, next year, next week, a decade from now. We spend hours of our lives imagining an alternate reality, a different self, but what about the one right now?

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My interpretation of Dear Future

For this project, The Future materializes as a person that I’ve fallen madly in love with even though I’ve never met them in real life. In my imagined reality, I thought about what our first date would look like, what it would feel like to be waiting for this moment to come. Heartbroken, this is the letter I would have written to The Future who did not show up for me. The pictures of the “egg experience”, called Oomancy illustrate the kind of obscure stratagems and witchcraft we create to ease the tension of the uncertainty. They point to how our natural response to this discomfort is to look for signs and answers everywhere.

My interpretation of Dear Future