Getting Lost In The Digital World

The wandering girl that leaves her house with her phone in her hand, the streets are bare but she is surrounded by so many people. “Good Morning”, “What should I wear today”, “Nice weather today”, “I wish I had a coffee”, “Last night was amazing” scrolling through her Twitter and Facebook timeline/newsfeed the presence of the barren streets becomes non existent as she is surrounded by the many voices of her “friends”. Walking and walking head down so consumed in the digital word she almost stumbles in to the real world with real people not artificial perceptions. The interaction with people is near; she approaches public transit where the real world is in a slight daze from the congestion of the crowded media land. As she comes to her senses she is pushed onto a crowded train the perception of physical space now becomes relevant, but as soon as she allows the physical to become present she pulls out her phone and drifts back away to the digital world. Now amongst a physical crowd she feels surprisingly isolated because she’s comforted by a space she is familiar with, she’s back in her world. Fluctuating between digital and physical she is in control of her physical and mental space where the barren becomes crowded and the crowded becomes barren.