I Travel Therefore I am
I Travel Therefore I am is a visual study of the vicious cycle of aspiration-consumption-validation.
The work analyses the influence of visual media on popular culture in tourism. It is an inquiry into how constant exposure to images of tourist destinations on popular information platforms fuels our aspirations to create similar visual content that one may validate the vacation and become participants of the trend. In a pool of infinite simulacrum of popular destinations, how do these aspirations interact with commodified realities of a tourist destination?
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