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SteampunkING us
KALEIDOS
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Open your imagination, close your eyes and go back to the Victorian era and the Industrial Revolution.
Steampunk, like fantasy, let us dream about escaping into another time and place, a simpler time where technology was far more basic and innocent.
The Victorian mindset was faith in science and technology. It was believed science could solve any problem. Progress was always good. Technology was like a magic genie. With it Mankind would end starvation, ignorance and poverty and create heaven on earth. The future would be much better than today.
Steampunk harkens back to a time when people saw the future with optimism, where science could solve any problem. Steampunk is about hope, or it ought to be.
Jules Verne wrote Steampunk stories. His heroes were scientists and inventors. Sometimes technology got them into trouble, but it would eventually get them back out again, too. There were good and evil, not just endless shades of murky gray. The hero was somebody worth rooting for because he was fighting for a future worth fighting for.
Kaleidos’ next Exhibition invited photographers to Steampunking Us creating scenes that make us dream in Heroes and Heroines and immersing ourselves in a world where there is always faith and hope for a better future.
Liv Xaris
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