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Editorials — 20.08.24
Photographer: An Shaoda
Stylist: Giorgia Goffi
Beauty: Anna Agostena
Model: Jessie Yu
The city confiscates everything belonging to us, and sells them back to us, at the highest price possible.
Clean air, fresh water, sunshine, forests, plants, connection between people, habitat.
So we have to make friends with shopkeepers and socialize with colleagues at work.
Then take a walk in this supermarket-alike city, along its supermarket-aisle-alike streets, full of endless stores…
We are laboratory rats.
We live in a rat cage with all the comforts, entertainment, and social media.
We have air conditioners in the car, office, and apartment to provide a cold-chain condition.
We have industrially produced food to fuel us.
We have prescribed medicines to get the best condition all the time.
We have social media to replace face-to-face conversation.
Are we sure about all of this?
The evolution shouldn’t be that fast.
We are still homo-rusticus, not homo-urban.
The more connections with nature, the fewer things we need.