Digital

My Digital Wilderness explores the content of my piece, being how I perceive and interact with the internet and its many facets. My piece has three parts: an interactive poster with live links, an alternative “corrupted” poster, and an animation of the original poster. This piece has numerous pop-ups or desktop files that clutter the screen of the illustration, such as Sanrio characters and random environments and Japanese characters. To speak more of the live links in the pop-ups, I knew I wanted two contrasting websites, and I found the juxtaposition of the Japanese car website and the wilderness preservation website fascinating. After all, the internet is still a vast wilderness to be explored. An online car company called cyberspace.com is an excellent example of this, which brings it all together.  Behind these pop-ups, I created an Instagram post in Illustrator reminiscent of the early Instagram layout. In the post is an image of a landscape with pink flowers and mountains in the background. On top of the photo is a digital illustration of myself with a pink cat gaming headset and arm and leg warmers, all elements of an “egirl.”