Figures becoming submerged into the swirling background unaware, being distracted by their phones.
A group of figures submerged into the swirling background, unaware of each other and the swirling chaos around them as they are distracted by their phones.
These are a series of new drawings I have been working on thinking about people being constantly distracted with their phones.
I did these drawings to highlight how we seem to spend a lot of our time using the phones for everything, for scrolling the latest news to finding the next recipe to cook. Our lives seem to be dominated by our screens.
People are not really socially engaged with each other like in terms of conversations, they would rather look at their phone than talk to you, saying they are busy doing something. People walk down the street looking at their phones rather than looking at where they are going, its either you have to move out of the way of they walk into you. This makes me feel a bit annoyed when that happens, it’s as if I’m not there.
In my drawings, the people are only half there because I wanted them to look like they are wading through the chaos of the background and being drawn into it. They don’t know what’s going on because they are too busy looking down at their screens.
