Karissa Sardinha

I am really bad at titles, so it took me a while to figure out what  to name the book. It seemed wrong to have it untitled, it would have been incomplete in a sense. I chose the title “Spectator”  because my theme in this past project (aside from the syfy genre)  has been about observing others. The children in the prints are the spectators, they do not have any identity to them for they are simply just outlines, “empty shells”. The characters “inside” the televisions are looking off screen as to be observing something that we the audience cannot see.  In some images they go so far as to look directly at the audience as if to acknowledge their presence.  We are all merely observers (spectators) of our world just as the characters in the shows are observers of their world. The Doctor explores space and time observing the changes that happen throughout history; Rod Serling narrates the observations to the audience in The Twilight Zone; The enterprises’ mission is “the explore strange new worlds”.  These all deal with being spectators in their own environment, just as the audience is a spectator to them.