Starting with the creation of Myspace, I delve into my history with loneliness and the new "Social Photo" as defined by social media theorist, Nathan Jurgensen. Thinking about our new form of communication and the history of the photograph, I look at how the work of photographers Nan Goldin and Bill Owens approach truth in their work. Comparing our common desire for connection to an image that depicts an honest reality, I approach my work as a photographic installation artist with the background of social media. Equating this form of experience to the creation of the Disneyland theme park, viewed as the crux of the new social image, I examine how experience is upheld on social platforms that perpetuates loneliness, boredom, and consumerism in our app-obsessed time of post truth, and how those thoughts can change if we learn from those experiences and sit with our difficult emotions.
