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Gravitional Drunkenness
Unsteady
*Gravitational: The force of attraction between two opposing masses. The movement to or towards someone or something.
*Drunkenness: Being in a temporary state in which one’s physical and mental faculties are being impaired by some type of substance. Overcoming or being dominated by a strong feeling or emotion.
The Gravitational Drunkenness theory states that when a person is drunk they lose precision of reality. The body loses coordination, sense of direction and the sense of sound becomes obstructed. Words and objects around one begin to move faster than the body.
The artist Arezo Khosroshahi believes we are all living in a way that the speed of life has disrupted our sense of being and our vision is distorted, as if we are driving over the speed limit, losing peripheral vision completely and only seeing a dot at the end of the tunnel.
It’s as though we are drunk and trying to keep up with the objects around us, thinking that those objects are moving while in reality it is us, and the society that has speeded up.