An animated model of 'Care' as a human in the process of Being
Channel: Ian Coxon
Date: 2018-03-19

This is a video animation of a model developed to understand what being a human is all about. It is a representation of a human being in the process of living or everyday life - What philosophers have referred to for centuries as human Being. It is understandably a severe abstraction of human life but its goal is to represent a human life-time in its most simple form and in a way that enables us to see not only how at one level, we are all the same, but how this very sameness is the font from which we produce the infinite variations that make each of us unique. The animation and poetic style of narrative provides a simple description of how our life (Care) changes over time. From our birth to our death, the unique and irreplaceable form of Care that we develop over time is transformed through the everyday activities of life (experiences) – over time these shape our view of the world and the way we live; not only in the way we see ourselves, but how we deal with others and the world we are part of. This is us in action – Care is who we are – What we do with our life is 'our' Care and nobody else's.
Care is WHY we do anything – and it is the meaning that we make through our life and thus the meaning of life – for each of us.