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The World Ends With Me

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Piece 5 of 17.

Completed ~July 2008

The lives that adults and youths live are almost literally worlds apart. Each are busy enough in their own lives that the time they spend in each other's lives grow severely limited. This piece looks at the problem in the youth's perspective.

I chose Shinjuku, Japan, as the background. It being a business and entertainment district, sees a mixture of human traffic from all walks of life. The only thing that connects these people is the fact that they exist in the same place. Otherwise, their lives have no connection to each other whatsoever. Such is the case with the lives of many families around. Each member lives their life very much apart from each other that the only thing connecting them together is the same roof they live under.

The girl in the foreground is representative of the youth. Whether intentional or not, she is very much absorbed into her own world. through the headphones, she 'hears' only what she wants to, while at the same time, shutting out everything else she doesn't want. As a result, the world is what she makes it out to be, shutting out all the 'irrelevant parts', as the title is to imply. The various copies of black-and-white businessman in the background are physical representations of said 'irrelevant parts'. People with little involvement in her life, she takes no interest in them. Eventually, she lumps these people together according to stereotypes, in this case the age group, and as such, the generation gap develops.
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Vamp-Elanor's avatar
Sweet, it is very much in the game's spIrit!! ^_^