Intersections Between Language and Photography

I perceive culture as a collective sensory reflection of any given society’s environment that persists over time while also evolving through time. How culture persists over time involves both learning and teaching directly via formal and informal education. How culture evolves through time is a collective, but indirect response/reflection of how and what information is internalized. What the information comes to mean after internalization is reflected individually through contribution to society, be it an intellectual or artistic reflection. Because it is impossible to remove the individual from interpretation and therefore meaning, culture persists at the same time it evolves—however slowly that may be.

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