Feeling Cute Might Delete Later, idk

This piece is one of my personal favorites. So much so that you might recognize the recolored version from the landing page of this website. The image is a commentary on the selfie, social media, and internet culture in general. With the advent of the internet, humans have been barraged with beauty to the point of atrophy. Artificial perfection is within everyone's fingertips, embedded into our smartphones, which pump out content to the social mediasphere every minute.

Influencers pump out selfie after selfie after ad post, cranking up the saturation and slapping on that skin smoothing filter, without a care or concern for realism or even the message they're communicating. Images are posted, screenshot, cropped, saturated, re-encoded and blasted back to the social mediasphere, adding to an endless stream of ever-distorting noise. As digital decay rots our bits and brains, we're slowing losing our connection to reality, and nobody cares.

But hey, it's a pretty good selfie.