Social Commentary: The Way We Worship

Artwork that acts as a social commentary in response to the way people love and show love to one another using networking platforms. The work visualizes a larger-than-life electronic device being used for social media by a figure with a perspective from behind. The way we watch one another for cues, trends and inspiration becomes the jumping-off point for what is cool and who will be celebrated because of it. The largest figures are symbolic of those who accrue this popularity the most, indicative with interactive like, comment and share icons that also place a certain content’s importance in the scene. Social media is grand and assuming, it is a spectacle, the handbook for what to consume and how to speak, a bible for those who seek its solace. We devote ourselves and pine and pace over the pace and pressures to be someone worthy of praise so much so we become nobody at all. The top of the image represents this sentiment paired with the notion that social media users devote themselves to something that makes us more unknown and absent. It interrupts our life like the fall of a curtain amid a show we were not even watching.