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Modern Prayer

Modern Prayer critiques playfully the idea that our self-validation and existential needs, in the past fulfilled by religious means, have transferred to and been replaced by our smartphones and social media.

It is the first thing we do in the morning and the last thing we do at night. 

My objective is to make a parallel between the traditional prayer ritual to our more modern phone ritual through observation of human behavior in public spaces. 

SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2018

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