messages for our future

With every major event, every natural disaster or societal change there are a multitude of visions, thousands lenses documenting the experiences, the victories and the challenges. “Messages for our Future” recreates these visions through an interactive mosaic digital artwork which uses hundreds of images and poetic/enlightening texts captured by the citizens and students from the Japanese tsunami impacted city of Tohoku. Armed with cameras they captured scenes of rebuilding, of a hopeful future amidst the rubble and damage. Each of those images is a story, a forever inspiring narratives, and the artwork recombines them, forming compelling mosaic combinations with each exploration. Every time you move your mouse and click, you can explore new images and see new relationships between the stories, to infinitely zoom through a webbed mosaic of images and poetic texts. To explore, simply mouse-­‐ over/navigate to an appealing are of an image, click and click, read, contemplate connections and repeat, an interactive zooming/clicking interface.