Too Close
As a result of the proliferation of media-based concepts, the media portray the identity of each person in this collage as "too close". Due to the nature of their roles and status in society, these people's lives have become the focus of the public sphere, where their individuality is most often compromised because each individual in society takes a part of their identity and make it his own.
Too Far
Media has a way of molding the audience’s perception of things, and it takes advantage of this power to dehumanize those who are deemed to be too strange and different. The people in the collage are an example of those being pushed beyond humanity, as the audience has negative and twisted perceptions of these people.
Proper Distance
Proper distance requires a symbiosis between what humans perceive as the similar and the different where the similar does not mean the exact and different does not merit isolation. The people in the collage present proper distance as being nameless but not faceless - nameless in the sense that their cultural and socio-political differences are identifiable but not faceless that they are completely indistinguishable from the viewer.
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