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This piece was written with inspiration from Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle.
Modern people’s lives are increasingly consumed not through direct experience, but as images to show to others.
Today’s muse, Luna, is in Santorini, the most beautiful resort island, but instead of enjoying the scenery, she gazes at the camera — that is, the observer — striking a perfect pose.
I reflected on the current state of modern people, where the image of “appearing happy” has become more important than the actual feeling of “being happy.”
The landscape becomes a background, and life becomes an exhibition. Are we inside the scenery, or inside the frame?
May this be a time of reflection where you ask that question to yourself 😊

Original Audio-Visual Project by Acity
Directed & Edited by Acity
Music: Produced by Acityartmedia
Lyricist: Acity

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Transcript
00:18Cobalt blue, a Santorini noon that stings the eyes
00:22The sun computes the perfect angle above the horizon
00:26And instead of feeling the breeze, I rearrange my hair
00:30My gaze never hits the ocean, it drifts toward the others past the lens
00:36The actual temperature is irrelevant, the filter's hue is everything
00:41For my happiness is not a feeling, it's a showing
00:46A life on display, a paradise, a echo spectacle
00:53The landscape is merely my backdrop
00:57Life is a meticulous play
01:02Trapped within the frame
01:05I strike my freest pose
01:10Amid the applause of you look so happy
01:14Where does the real me reside?
01:21Cold coffee, yet the steam swirls eternally in the shot
01:24A silent resort without a single laugh
01:27Only the echo of notifications
01:29Are we dwelling in the landscape or within the frame?
01:34Sentences lose their full stops
01:36And images proliferate without end
01:39Reality evaporates
01:41Leaving only a radiant shell in the golden afternoon
01:45Even with eyes closed
01:47The after images linger as pixels
01:49I perform the me inside the frame
01:52While the world becomes my audience
01:55A life on display
01:58A paradisiacal spectacle
02:01The landscape is merely my backdrop
02:06Life is a meticulous play
02:11Trapped within the frame
02:13I strike my freest pose
02:17I strike my freest pose
02:19Amid the applause of you look so happy
02:22Where does the real me reside?
02:32Exhibited scenery
02:34The taxidermy itself
02:38Goodnight
02:40Into the frame
03:09Uh, it's in a human
03:10A human being
03:12Over and over
03:13It's a human being
03:15The time
03:15The video
03:15After eating
03:15The watch
03:15The audience
03:15Who raised the audience
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