Photo opp Collage

When over 1 million selfies are taken and shared online each day, social media reveals itself as a widely used tool of identity construction, particularly for young people whose fixation with this form means that selfies make up a third of all photos taken by 18-24 year olds. 36% admit to altering their selfies and 13% of women report that they retouch every photo they take of themselves. As such a pervasive phenomenon, the artworks in this series explore selfie culture in the context of mass behaviour, the spread of ideas (cue the neural imagery and connections between neurons), the editing/filtering processes used to present an ideal, and the formation of societal norms. The starting point for this series of work was to print out the first 100 photos tagged #selfie on a social media platform. I’ve used the cut-out hair to create a resemblance to the dendrites of a neuron.

Collage:Acrylic on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:11.4 W x 8.8 H x 0.1 D in

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