David Crawford’s work seems to be quite bizarre considering his “Stop Motion Studies” take place on the subway and each person in his work, is part of his art. Crawford’s work foregrounds a multitude of human interactions to show that 90% of human communication is non-verbal. By doing so the viewer picks up on the all the body movements and gestures humans make. I would feel uncomfortable if I was a piece of someone’s mass art project especially when the person taking the picture is someone I don’t know. There are some clips of some people sleeping and usually they are close ups, I just think that those people taking the pictures are “creepers.” Regardless of the situation, Crawford’s work shows that 90% of human communication is non-verbal and further goes to show that interaction between people are decreasing as digital technologies play increasingly higher roles in individual’s lives. If you observe the people, most of the people either perform for the photographer or ignore what’s going on. Either way, most of the people on the subway ignore each other and pretend or are preoccupied in their digital technologies. This is important because the subway brings people of different social and cultural backgrounds together, and if people of different societies and cultures cannot react with each other, we see that the city’s character is changing for the worse. What is most odd is that David Crawford uses art to show this! You can say Crawford is an interdisciplinary artist like Mel Chen and his work has a theatrical function.
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