Emotional Strategy revolves around the experiences of playing board games growing up during the 60’s and 70’s. It wasn’t until the early 80’s when the vantage point and distance to the environment just below me, shifted to an aerial perspective through a lens at various altitudes. Strategies existed in both worlds, one to play to win, the other for work and being as safe while doing it. The element of chance also existed in both activities, due the roll of dice in one, and acknowledging that flying was at times was a risky occupation. The affiliation between board games and aerial photography was the vantage points each embodied, which eventually led to a conceptual middle ground to explore in the arts, combining a common ground with altered perspectives. The vantage point of the board game and viewing the planet surface thousands of feet below perspectives influenced my methodical process for creating a visual narrative about my place and responsibility in the world regardless the distance from it.

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